Product Design

Main features

Listed here generic features according to different layers of activity. Starting vocabulary:

Web maps or slippy maps
Global Discrete Tiling System: as in every slippy map, it is a modern method for subdiving Earth surface into smaller polygons that are well-defined and with a unique id; but only locally uniform in area. Each polygon is usually defined by a row number, a column number and a zoom level, see OSM zoom levels.

User Experience

Tile-based: user defines an AoI based on tiles of interest
Pay by metrics: the tupling of tiles (number and size), time intervals (year, season, months) defines the pricing (analitycs and indices can be pre-defined based on the business case)

Frontend

Possibility of selecting tiles using Global Discrete Tiling System
Possiblity of defining a mix of metrics
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Backend

Services integration via software-as-a-service (Python toolkits over different providers of data)

Analytics

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System, generic design principles

Google Cloud
Lambdas
Semantically Linked Datastore
Tiles' changes stored as DAG
"Everything is a graph"