Questions tagged [vector-tiles]
A mechanism for distributing vector data following the same tile numbering scheme as widely used raster tiles. Used by Google, Mapbox and other major mapping providers.
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Tippecanoe optimization and still retaining filtering ability
I'm trying to optimize our displayed vector tileset in symbollayer (In the mobile SDK). If I'm uploading the geojson as it is, I'm getting very bad performance for a number of 3500 features (Only ...
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Connecting QGIS to OS Vector Tile API
How do I bring Ordnance Survey's OS Vector Tile product directly into QGIS via their API (https://osdatahub.os.uk/docs/vts/overview)?
It feels like this should play very easily with the vector tiles ...
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How to colour vector tiles based on filter in QGIS 3.16
I have a vector tiles layer that displays fine in QGIS 3.16:
A fill without a filter works as well:
However, the fill based on a filter on the feature properties does not work (result can be seen in ...
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Render raster from vector tiles in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) using Tileserver GL
I have vector tiles that are in the WGS84 CRS (EPSG:4326). I can confirm that they are in WGS84 because on a Web Mercator basemap (pg_tileserv preview) they display in Svalbard (should be in Austria):
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Extracting Vertices / Snapping to points from Vector Tile Service (VTS) Layer
I am using a new vector tile service for background mapping.
I can select/interrogate individual objects from the vector layer with the info tool - but they're not recognised by the snapping tool.
I ...
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Generating Styled Vector Tiles with QGIS 3
I have generated raster tiles before with QGIS 3.14 (which worked fine) and now wanted to generate vector tiles. Once I tried that and viewed the mbtiles file in QGIS, I saw that all the styling that ...
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T-rex basemap style
I've figured out how to display a tile using T-rex, only problem i don't have any basemap is it normal ? Do i need to load another table ? I took my data form geofrabrik as an .pbf file. I have used ...
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Tile server fail to display map
I ma begining with vector tiles and geo data in general. I am running a T-rex server to serv data post a postGIS database. i have an issue with my browser part because i can't display anything ! ...
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Tippecanoe vector tiles duplicating over certain graticules (equator, -90)
I have large geojsons at different scales that I have converted to tiles with tippecanoe. My ultimate goal is for a user to be able to draw a box around the tiles and calculate mean attribute values ...
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Converting a drawn map into vector tiles [closed]
I am looking into how to turn a fantasy map into vector tiles so it can imported into something like Mapbox but I'm getting drowned in information and I can't find the start point in the process, what ...
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OpenLayers: Performance on satellite hybrid map (raster tiles, vector tiles, vector labels)
I've got a map with three kinds of layers, each of which serving a somewhat different function:
TileLayer: raster tiled map from an XYZ source (as .png) to show photographs in the background
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Does ESRI ArcGIS API for JavaScript support vector tiles with fill-extrusion Style Property?
ESRI ArcGIS API For JavaScript’s support GL JSON Stylesheets/Vector Tiles that use fill-extrusion property?
https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/style-spec/layers/#fill-extrusion
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"id": &...
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Vector tiles from non-earth coordinates
I have a GeoJSON representing a fantasy world, with coordinates ranging from -3000 to 3000.
I have successfully displayed it on a Leaflet map using L.CRS.simple, but the GeoJSON is too heavy and takes ...
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Open source alternatives to mapbox-gl?
What are the alternative vector tiles pipeline tools (producing -> rendering) to mapbox-gl as it is no longer open-source starting from its version 2.0.0?
Source: https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-...
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Styling pg_tileserv pbf in leaflet
I am having a ton of trouble styling my pbf tile service rendered from pg_tileserv in a leaflet map.
here is my code
L.vectorGrid.protobuf(http://localhost:7800/data_oh.parcel/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf, {
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How to load specific ArcGIS vector tile layer using OL?
We have a react application using OpenLayers.
We want to load a grayscale background layer.
I found one at https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=...
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CSV to Vector Tiles: Encoding polygons in Tippecanoe (or some other software)
I want to generate .pdf vector tiles from polygon features. From what I've found out, tippecanoe seems to be the way to go. Like so (found here):
tippecanoe --no-feature-limit --no-tile-size-limit --...
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Tippecanoe, OpenLayers: Vector tiles from JSON with custom extent
I'm using OpenLayers to display a large zoomable non-geographical map. So far, I've been using raster tiles. In order to improve the performance, I'm trying to switch to vector tiles. I've got the ...
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Converting.vtpk (from ArcGIS Pro) into Google Earth compatible file
I have already turned the vector data into a vector tile cached package. If I were staying in ArcGIS then this would be fine. But I am working with a client that needs to see everything in Google ...
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Extracting a region's outline of roads from a GIS database, as a vector image
It's now about 5 days I've been trying to extract an outline of the internal transportation routes of a city (Tehran) from various kinds of GIS sources, and exporting that outline as a vector image, ...
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Vector tiles and QGIS 3.14+
I'm using QGIS to produce a vector tile dataset for use with OpenLayers (as shown here).
However, although the dataset produced can be opened in QGIS and it renders normally, when using it in ...
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Geodata for label layer in vector tiles
I'm trying to get familiar with creating my custom vector tiles. For this purpose I'm creating a simple world map with country boundaries based on natural earth shapefiles. I'm creating the vector ...
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Write vector tiles in QGIS 3.16 (writevectortiles_xyz)
QGIS 3.16 offers a processing-tool writevectortiles_xyz
(My project contains a simple test-polygon-layer with just one feature, with default-style.)
I used following settings (extend from layer):
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Understanding fonts for vector maps
I am serving a custom vector map using Tileserver GL. Everything works as expected, but I just don't want to die dump. So... there is directory called (in my case) glyphs with subdirectories like e.g. ...
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Generate GeoJSON tile layers from Shapefile
I have some vector layers in a shapefile that I would like to display in the Google Maps Javascript API. I recently learned that you can generate GeoJSON from shapefiles in the correct CRS using QGIS: ...
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Vector Tiles: do the zoom levels depend on the projection?
For Mercator Projection I found a table of zoom levels and their corresponding scale. I suppose that the number of zoom levels and the corresponding scale change when using another projection for Map ...
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Displaying Vector Tiles (WMTS/TMS) in QGIS 3.14
I am testing Vector Tiles display in QGIS 3.14 which is the first QGIS version to natively support this layer format. WMTS/TMS comes from GeoServer/GeoWebCache and is already tiled in Mapbox Vector ...
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How to refresh vector tile layer after setting declutter in OpenLayers 6?
I am using OpenLayers version 6. I want to change the declutter of a vector tile layer by using vecTileLayer.set('decluter',false).
After changing declutter of layer with the set method of ...
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Label appears completely different in Layout-view than in exported image in QGIS using maptiler plugin
I'm using the maptiler vector tiles plugin in QGIS to have a base map that I can style a bit. There is a problem however.
I'm seeing this in the layout-view:
I don't like that the line to the ...
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Converting a GeoJSON file to vector tiles compatible with CesiumJS in Java
When I explored on google, I found a lot of packages in Github which were in JavaScript or NodeJS. Did anyone has written a code or came across a library in Java to convert GeoJSON to tiles?
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Union MVT features based on attribute / id in OpenLayers render
Following Paul Ramsey's article about ST_Subdivide I was able to split the Natural Earth boundaries dataset. Generating tiles which intersect the boundaries of Canada and Russia on the fly is now ...
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Displaying Telstra Vector Tile Server data in QGIS 3.14.16-Pi
I am running QGIS 3.14.16-Pi and am wanting to load the layers Telstra (Australian telephone company) provides on their GIS server.
https://staging.gcm.telstra.com.au/gisserver/rest/services/Hosted/
I ...
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From osm.pbf data to mbtiles (pbf vector tiles inside a sqlite3 container)?
I need to experiment with vector tiles based on OSM data.
To do that, I've downloaded an OSM *.osm.pbf data file from geofabrik.de.
I want now to store these data either as the standard /tileset/{Z}/{...
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Convert a mbtiles tileset folder into a single .mbtiles SQLite file?
I have a root tileset folder structured with the standard tiling scheme /tileset/{Z}/{X}/{Y}.pbf.
When I try using GDAL, I think I miss something:
$ ogr2ogr -f MVT sqlite.mbtiles ./tileset
FAILURE:
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MapBox GL Style version
We are using QGIS 3.4.14 -Madeira - Vector Tiles Reader plugin (3.2.2). What version of MapBox GL style JS is used in the Vector Tiles Reader plugin?
Regards,
Rajesh
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Using .pbf Vector Tiles generated with t-rex with OpenLayers errors with “Uncaught Error: Unimplemented type: 7”
I generated .pbf vector tiles with t-rex's generate command.
I then uploaded them to a directory served with the Apache HTTP server.
Trying to use the tiles with OpenLayers (6.4.3) resulted in no ...
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Geoserver Vector tiles hollow issue with layer
I am using vector tiles from PostGIS, Geoserver for the world layer,
I have multiple layers for the global level,
I have seen multiple holes and missing tiles of some boundaries in the layer of vector ...
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Loss of vector line accuracy when exporting from QGIS
I'm new to QGIS and having a little trouble understanding why my vector lines in QGIS look sharp and accurate but when I export and then import into MapBox, the line accuracy is reduced.
Vector end ...
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Failed to create dynamic vector tiles using PostGIS on existing table
I am unable to run PostGIS ST_AsMVTGeom. I read Serving Dynamic Vector Tiles from PostGIS by Paul Ramsey and the PostGIS documentation.
The code is below:
SELECT ST_AsMVT(mvtgeom.*) FROM (
SELECT ...
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Filtering vector tile layer in OpenLayers map? [closed]
I have GeoDjango application for the visualization of household data with around 10k features. So I have used the vector tile for the visualization of these data. Now I faced the problem with the ...
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Load an ArcGIS Vector Tiled Layer from a URL
.net core 3.1 Wpf application use Esri.ArcGISRuntime.WPF v100.7.0., tries to view vector tile from own tile server, but nothing displays.
my code:
ArcGISVectorTiledLayer vectorTiledLayer = new ...
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Open ArcGIS Business Analyst Vector Tile Service in QGIS 3.14
Don't even know if this is possible, but I am trying to open up a Vector Tile Service that is subscription content I have through Esri Business Analyst Online. I am able to open in ArcGIS Pro (of ...
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Unable to Load ArcGIS vector tiles to mapbox-gl-leaflet
So basically I am using the mapbox-gl-leaflet plugin to render mapbox vector tiles on leaflet map. Now I am trying to load ArcGIS vector tiles in the plugin but the vector tile is not rendering on the ...
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How do you create vector tiles to represet landmass and oceans
I plan to self-host my own vector tiles and use Mapbox JS to render them in the browser for a design project where I create minimal abstract looking maps of the world. Hosting on Mapbox is not ...
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Best way to serve vector tiles from data that changes frequently?
I'm working on a project where I process national radar data and generate a GeoJSON with the data. The data is generated every 5 minutes and I delete the oldest data before I add the latest data. I'm ...
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GDAL C# Bindings
I need some help on usage of GDAL C# bindings to convert geoJSON to MVT. How do I know that, below call is complete? We observed that below call is Async (All the code lines are executed and Parent ...
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how to run batch process for vector shapefiles
I am kind of new at this.
I ran a gis operation using python, where by I performed euclidean distance for specific state road, river and towns data and reclassified them showing good and bad areas ...
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Standalone GeoWebCache drop some parts of features in tiles
I have a local GeoServer with standalone GeoWebCache to serve vector tiles in PBF file format. The layer displays country borders in the world but the problem is in different tiles some parts of ...
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Using ST_AsMVT with ST_TileEnvelope clipping in mapbox
I have been searching for a while for a way to correctly project the ST_AsMVT to ensure it fits to the map. The below query was the only suggestion I found that will correctly transform to the mapbox ...
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Printing OpenLayers map with vector tile layers has CORS error for GeoServer vector tiles
I want to create a client side printing module for OpenLayers (v6) map. In OpenLayers web site there is a printing example with JSPDF (Export PDF example
). I used this example but there is an error:
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