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Comment on: Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS
I have the same sentiment on ESRI. It’s basically all I got taught in my university courses, but it’s not what I ever want to use.It’s crazy that a privately held company holds like a third of the market share.And personally, I don’t think their software is that good. I find their documentation to be undesirable and their solutions to be strict.Case in point, the geodatabase (gdb) standard is purposefully meant to obfuscate the data within. No one has ever been able to explain to me why this is, and the standard has been open sourced by now.Not to mention, the number of times I’ve had ArcMap c