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Hosting yo own tiles

Back in 2011, this is the tool stack used by Chicago Tribune.

"This is part one of a five-part series about our recent explorations making choropleth maps using PostGIS, TileMill, Mapnik and Google Maps."

MapBox infrastructure (2012)

Here is a rundown of the mapbox insfrastrucutre in 2012.

"MapBox is powered by open source, largely by Node.js, Backbone.js, Puppet, and Jekyll, and most of our stack is deployed on Amazon’s high-performance cloud infrastructure."

Now

Infrastrcture aside, this is how the tile rendering itself has progressed.

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