File size is one - the OS treats the database as one file rather than many small files. This is nice esp if you have the 4k sector. Another is that it's much easier to move/copy a single file around rather than a folder of files. I would love to use a mbtile database locally or on a regular file server which I can't configure. Not to mention it would upload much faster to a remote server. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Phil Scadden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:p.scadden@gns.cri.nz">p.scadden@gns.cri.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
mbtiles would seem to require a SQLLite database running locally. What<br>
is the advantage of that compared to just using a TMS layout?<br>
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