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		habi 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet in a Box But about 70% of all images are something like https://tile.openstreetmap.org/10/399/390.png, e.g. water...

moffkalast 9 months ago [–]

> 7.8 TB, too much water.

That could be easily compressed by having all of these link to one water image though, no?

habi 9 months ago | [–]

Theoretically yes. But no person ever is going to look at all the tiles (on the highest zoom levels) in the sea, so they are not rendered by default, and only on demand.

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