Compressing the cities of the world into a mere 61 megabytes
I started loc-to-city because my favorite photo manager kept telling me the wrong city. It has since turned into something I keep reaching for in other projects, so this post is about the tool and the file format it produces, not about the photo manager. The headline I still find hard to believe: every country, region and city boundary on Earth, at a resolution of roughly 300 by 150 metres, in a…