Humphrey parent
I know right! I'd never heard of HTTP Range requests until PMTiles - but gee it's an elegant solution.
Hadn't seen PMTiles before, but that matches the mental model exactly! I chose physical file sharding over Range Requests on a single db because it felt safer for 'dumb' static hosts like CF. - less risk of a single 22GB file getting stuck or cached weirdly. Maybe it would work