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  1. Not started, At which zoom does every capital get its own tile?Web deliveryAnswers

    Count capitals per XYZ tile across zooms to decide where a label layer switches from clustering to one label per city.

    Web GISintermediateDifficulty: intermediate180 XP~25 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Populated places · Point · 1,251 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Convert points to tile indices at several zooms
    • Find the busiest tile per zoom
    • Choose a switch-over zoom from the data
    XYZ tileslabelsclusteringzoom levelsglobalAlso trains Cartography
    Open problem
  2. Not started, At which zoom does the dock layer fit in a tile?Web deliveryAnswers

    Count features per XYZ tile across zoom levels to set a vector-tile pipeline's minimum zoom and its per-tile limit honestly.

    Web GISintermediateDifficulty: intermediate190 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Dataset

    • Santander Cycles docking stations (live snapshot) · Point · 799 features · EPSG:4326

    What you’ll do

    • Convert coordinates to tile indices at several zooms
    • Count features per tile and find the maximum
    • Choose a minimum zoom from the data rather than a default
    vector tilesXYZtippecanoezoom levelsLondonAlso trains Spatial Analysis
    Open problem
  3. Not started, Why a cloud-optimised GeoTIFF is cheap to serveWeb deliveryAnswers

    Read a COG's internal structure — tiles, overviews, bytes — and turn it into the numbers a tile server's capacity plan rests on.

    GIS ArchitectureintermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~30 min4 checks

    You hand in your answers as values.

    Datasets

    • Greater London land cover 2021 (ESA WorldCover 10 m) · Raster · EPSG:4326
    • Greater London, Sentinel-2 red and NIR, 11 July 2025 · Raster · EPSG:32630

    What you’ll do

    • Read a GeoTIFF's block size and overview structure
    • Count internal tiles from dimensions and block size
    • Relate the structure to what a tile request costs
    COGGeoTIFFtile servercapacity planningrasterAlso trains Web GIS
    Open problem