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Tips, guides, and best practices for geospatial cloud storage, map hosting, and building with Sarkoa. Reduce egress costs and serve your data everywhere.
Why Egress Fees Are Killing Your Geospatial Budget
Most cloud providers charge every time someone views your map. Learn how pay-for-storage and zero egress can cut costs for teams that serve lots of map views.
Read more →Geospatial Cloud Storage 101: Formats, Tiles, and When to Use What
Shapefiles, GeoJSON, COG, vector tiles—when to use which format and how to serve them without running your own tile server.
Read more →How to Serve Vector Tiles Without Running Your Own Server
Skip the ops burden. Host your vector tiles in the cloud and stream them directly to QGIS, web maps, or custom apps.
Read more →Integrating Sarkoa with QGIS: A Step-by-Step Guide
Connect QGIS to your hosted layers in minutes. Load cloud-hosted rasters and vectors without downloading full datasets.
Read more →From Shapefile to Cloud: Migrating Your GIS Data the Right Way
Best practices for moving legacy GIS data to cloud storage while keeping it accessible to your existing tools and workflows.
Read more →Cost Comparison: Traditional Tile Hosting vs. Pay-for-Storage
A realistic look at monthly costs when you pay per view versus when you pay only for storage—and when each model wins.
Read more →Building a Web Map with Hosted Geospatial Data
Use hosted layers and a simple API to build fast web maps without managing servers or worrying about bandwidth spikes.
Read more →Geospatial API Design Best Practices for Modern Apps
REST, tiles, and streaming: design patterns that keep your geospatial API simple for clients and cheap to run.
Read more →More posts coming soon. Have a topic you’d like us to cover? Get in touch.