Vector Tiles Part 1
The HEAD
of a HTML document is a really interesting thing.
A few years back I replaced my home-built desktop PC with a Lenovo laptop. My thinking at the time was wouldn’t it be great to be able to drag my production machine everywhere! This turned out to be bad thinking.
I was really happy with my YouTube intro vid for GeoPortal. I wasn’t happy with what it did to my page load time. It added >1s to the load time, ~300KB to the page weight, and did some unpleasant style flashing as the player loaded. For a video that some users would watch once, that sucks. Time to give it the forearm shiver.
Behold! I bring you GeoPortal. Again. For the third time.
I have beed doing (mediocre) dbadmin work forever. MS SQL Server, MySQL (pre-MariaDB), and Postgres have minded my data at various times for two decades. MySQL was OK. I lived in constant fear SQL Server had broken into