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> but I would conservatively use 128-bytes per point as a general rule.

why not store close items together in a small block and use offsets + delta encoding ?




Thanks for the suggestion, I'll need to investigate further. Right now, under the hood Tile38 uses an 3d rtree. Each node clusters 8-16 objects together. I'm always looking for a better way.




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