I'm developing a solution to serve a pan-tropical (and perhaps ultimately global) raster dataset to a cartoDB application. I'd prefer to stick to GDAL/open source tools if possible, but would be glad to accept other suggestions as well. The final output should be in http://domain.com/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}
format
I've built the basic OSM tile server on Ubuntu 14.04, implementing the postGIS >> mapnik >> renderd >> mod_tile
tool chain with OSM data.
I'm currently customizing it to process .tif data, but my question is-- is there a better approach given that we're dealing with .tif data? The above is optimized to handle OSM input; is there something else I should be using for rasters? And is there a reason all the blog posts on tile generation are from 2013 or earlier? Should I be using vector tiles instead?