Refactor/361 remove all tile related code pmtiles mvt vmt

[jathavaan]

This pull request removes all code, documentation, and configuration related to the "VMT API Server" and vector tile serving (PMTiles/MVT), streamlining the codebase to focus on the core benchmarking framework. It deletes the API server's Dockerfile and its service definition, removes related CI/CD workflows, and cleans up interfaces and documentation for tile APIs and vector tile formats.

Major removals and cleanup:

API server and vector tile serving:

• Removed the vmt-api-server service from docker-compose.yml, deleting its build and run configuration.
• Deleted the .docker/Api.Dockerfile used to build the API server container image.
• Removed the entire GitHub Actions workflow for building, publishing, and deploying the API server (.github/workflows/publish-api.yml).
• Eliminated the API server build job and related path filters from the main pull request CI workflow (.github/workflows/pull-request-tests.yml). [1] [2] [3]

Tile-related interfaces and contracts:

• Removed IMVTService, ITileApiService, and ITileService interfaces and their imports from the application contracts, as well as the convert_pmtiles_to_bytes method from IBytesService. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Documentation updates:

README and architecture docs:

• Updated README.md and CLAUDE.md to remove references to the VMT API server, PMTiles, and MVT vector tiles, focusing documentation on the remaining supported engines (DuckDB, PostGIS, Apache Sedona, and Shapefile). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

These changes significantly simplify the project by removing unused vector tile serving infrastructure and related documentation, reducing maintenance overhead and clarifying the project's scope.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR removes the VMT API server and all vector-tile-related code paths (PMTiles/MVT), narrowing the repository’s scope back to the core benchmarking framework (DuckDB/PostGIS/Sedona/Shapefile).

Changes:

• Deleted the FastAPI-based tile server endpoint and its Docker/CI plumbing (compose service, API Dockerfile, publish workflow, PR build job).
• Removed tile-related application contracts and infrastructure services (MVT/PMTiles/tile selection), plus DI container wiring.
• Cleaned up configuration/enums/dependencies/docs to eliminate tile-specific settings, containers, iterations, and library requirements.

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File	Description
src/presentation/entrypoints/setup_benchmarking_framework.py	Removes PMTiles/MVT generation and tile-candidate probing logic from framework setup.
src/presentation/endpoints/tile_server.py	Deletes the FastAPI VMT tile server implementation.
src/presentation/configuration/app_config.py	Stops DI wiring for the removed tile server module.
src/infra/infrastructure/services/tile_service.py	Deletes tile coordinate/tiles.json helper service.
src/infra/infrastructure/services/tile_api_service.py	Deletes VMT/PMTiles fetching and PMTiles HTTP range reader helper.
src/infra/infrastructure/services/mvt_service.py	Deletes PostGIS ST_AsMVT tile generation service.
src/infra/infrastructure/services/bytes_service.py	Removes PMTiles file-to-bytes helper.
src/infra/infrastructure/services/__init__.py	Removes exports for the deleted tile/MVT services.
src/infra/infrastructure/containers.py	Removes DI providers and imports for tile/MVT services.
src/domain/enums/storage_container.py	Removes the TILES storage container enum value.
src/domain/enums/benchmark_iteration.py	Removes vector-tile benchmark iteration presets.
src/config.py	Removes VMT server URL and local PMTiles/MVT resource paths/constants.
src/application/contracts/*tile* + *mvt*	Deletes tile-related service interfaces and removes them from contracts exports.
requirements.txt	Drops FastAPI/Starlette/Uvicorn and PMTiles-related dependencies.
README.md / CLAUDE.md	Removes documentation references to VMT/PMTiles/MVT and web-app deployment steps.
docker-compose.yml	Removes the vmt-api-server service.
.github/workflows/pull-request-tests.yml	Removes API change detection output and the API image build job.
.github/workflows/publish-api.yml	Deletes the API publish/deploy workflow.
.docker/Api.Dockerfile	Deletes the API server Dockerfile.

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