Stay on budget.

Much of the data you're sharing with the public is probably static data that gets updated hourly, daily, weekly, etc. Constant, dynamic data visualization is sometimes required. In most cases, you can benefit greatly using static, Cloud Native formats like Cloud Optimized GeoTiff (COG) for raster and FlatGeobuf (FGB) for vector. The above municipal map uses open source, 3rd party base map tile servers and cloud native formats exclusively.

The power of cloud native is, it can be stored on any out of the box web server or cheap cloud hosting like AWS S3! No server side processing or intermediate services required. Save your credits for your in house data and projects. Don't waste resources serving static data to the public.

COG/FGB layers include:

• Road labels (FGB): road data from Census.gov/Tigerlines.
• Parcels (FGB): parcel data from local government.
• National parcels (FGB): national parcel data from openAddresses.io
• Addresses (FGB): addresses from openAddresses.io
• Supervisor Destricts (FGB): from local government.
• Voting precincts (FGB): from local government.
• Businesses/Places (FGB): from OpenStreetMap.com
• Tsunami Evacuations Zones (FGB): from local government.
• Building Footprints (FGB): from cloudNativeGeo.org.
• County lines (FGB): from Census.gov/Tigerlines.
• FEMA flood zones (FGB): from fema.gov.
• Public Lands (FGB): from usfs.gov.
• Local bus routes (FGB): from redwoodCoastTransit.org.
• Annual precipitation (COG): from www.prism.oregonstate.edu.
• Hourly surface smoke (COG): from noaa.gov.
• Fire risk (COG): from www.fs.usda.gov.
• Forest canopy (COG): in the heart of redwood country. Data from s3://dataforgood-fb-data.