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The way I've done this is to use planettiler to generate vector tiles for the whole world and then pack that into a squashfs archive. That way I don't need an additional program to serve them, and I can regenerate the whole archive every couple of months or so (I don't need the latest data).

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An exciting new standard here is pmtiles; a standardized way to store map tiles that can be used via http range requests. I believe planettiler has plans to add pmtiles output support as well.

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

Nice and looks very interesting! How would PMTiles handle compression? IIRC content-encoding and range requests don't play nice together, currently my server supports uncompressed, gzip and brotli for my tiles (compressed on-demand once and then cached).

For the next revision of the JS decoder I'm including `fflate` as a dependency so clients can decompress gzipped tile data using JavaScript.

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/blob/master/js/package....

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