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Blog post emphasizes the significant advantages of developing multi-language client applications by leveraging a "common core" of business logic. It highlights the "write once, use everywhere" principle, leading to consistency, reduced development costs, and optimized performance.

Apache Iceberg has introduced native support for geometry and geography data types, revolutionizing geospatial analytics on data lakes.

In OpenStreetMap, tags provide meaningful descriptions to nodes, ways, and relations, utilizing patterns and collaborative guidelines to organize data effectively.

To reduce vector tile size, simplify geometries, optimize feature properties by removing or encoding them, filter out unnecessary features at lower zoom levels, reduce coordinate precision, and always apply gzip compression.

XYZ is the web's de-facto tiling standard, placing its origin at the top-left with a downward Y-axis. TMS, a formal specification, uses a bottom-left origin with an upward Y-axis. Understanding this Y-axis difference is key to working with various map tile sources.