Thanks for your feedback! I have 0 experience with mapping so it was fun to see all the tools out there. There's much more out there than I expected. I did notice they had the API, but figured I would learn something a little more universally applicable by learning PostGIS. I should try that out though for a more lightweight and cheaper option next time
Absolutely and that's critical knowledge - PostGIS is super powerful and the experience with GDAL is definitely good to have (and to understand the transformations that are possible)
One of my favorite primers is by Robert Simmon who I had the pleasure of seeing at OpenVis: https://youtu.be/N_dmiQI1s24
RE mapping tools - I've been working a lot lately with Vector Tiles and their embedded props and from a web-mapping perspective it's nice to download the geometry once and then style many times in terms of over-the-wire efficiency.
