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Paul's Blog
Personal blog · paulnorman.ca/blogdatasystems
Paul's Blog is a personal blog at paulnorman.ca about data and systems. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Paul's Blog posts on OpenStreetMap vector tile storage and updates, and on using LC_ALL=C for big ASCII sorts. The comments cite the posts as answers or options; none judge them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’ve been looking at how many tiles are changed when updating OSM data in order to better guide resource estimations, and have completed some …
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2022/10/tilekiln-storage/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-12
What Hacker News says?
Thanks. I found this article on Paul's blog which answers my question: https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2024/01/minutely-updated-tile...
Comment linking /blog/2024/01/minutely-updated-tiles
on “2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps”Submitted Openstreetmap Cartographic: a client-side rendered Openstreetmap Carto as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlso a post from Paul Normans, mentioned in the parent post, covers some options. https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2022/10/tilekiln-storage/
Comment linking /blog/2022/10/tilekiln-storage/
on “2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps”Submitted Minutely Updated Vector Tile Maps (OSM): Technical Details as a story · 3 points
HN discussionProbably something else that is straightforward to incrementally update (applies to all 3 cases from your comment). https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2022/10/tilekiln-storage/
Comment linking /blog/2022/10/tilekiln-storage/
on “2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps”Same with PostgreSQL: https://www.paulnorman.ca/blog/2016/05/improve-your-st-geoha...
Comment linking /blog/2016/05/improve-your-st-geohash-sorting-with-these-three-simple-tricks/
on “Use LC_ALL=C for big ASCII sorts”
