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Geographic Information Systems

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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vectortiles: change style of basemap instead of data

I'm using Mapbox-GL-Leaflet bindings on Leaflet to style my vector tiles. I'd now allow the user to switch a style using Leaflet control. The easiest way would be to use LayerControl for this. Since ...
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MapBox SDK load local MBTiles

does anyone know how I can load local MBTiles from the device storage using the MapBox SDK? The vector Tiles come from this Website: https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/planet/ The same page offers ...
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ST_AsMVT single layer with multiple Id's

I'm trying to create mvt using postgis by following this tutorial If understand correctly ST_AsMVT is used to create a layer and generated layer will have id. same id can be used to apply styles. ...
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Set min and max zoom level to include a specific layer in GeoServer vector tiles

GeoServer has the capability of creating vector tiles in formats such as GeoJSON, TopoJSON or PBF from different kinds of data stores. In a test application, there is a layer group of an area which ...
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ESRI ArcGIS Runtime for .NET view non ESRI Vector Tiles

I am trying to view some vector tiles hosted outside of ArcGIS Online/ArcGIS Enterprise on my own tile server (Flat non indexed tiles). I have been unable to add the Tile Server to the .NET Runtime ...
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Decrease the volume of vector tiles generated by GeoServer

I've used GeoServer vector tile extension to produce PBF files from set of shape files. The problem is the generated MVTs from GeoServer have larger volume in comparison with Mapbox ones. How can I ...
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Generating vector-tiles and consider scale

I'm running GeoServer with version 2.13.1 I try to generate vector-tiles from a group layer which does work fine, but unfortunately buildings are rendered in every zoom level. (Actually all features ...
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Is vector tile a feasible option for dynamic data?

I want to create an application using vector tile. I am using OpenLayers 5 and GeoServer 2.14 for this purpose. My data (stored in PostgreSQL+PostGIS) has around 2.5 lakhs geometry (road network) ...
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Is there a Python script or geoprocessing tool that takes a folder of PBF Vector Tiles (TMS or XYZ Tiling Scheme) to VTPK (ESRI Vector Tile Package)

I'm trying to convert a folder of OSM PBF Vector Tiles to Esri's Vector Tile Package format (VTPK) for publishing in ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise. Building/generating vector tiles with ArcGIS Pro is too ...
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Rotating orthophoto based on polygon boundary (rotated pixel)?

When I clip an orthophoto using a vector polygon, the resulting pixels orientation is north-up like as shown in the graphic below. I used Global Mapper, ERDAS, Arcmap "Clip" "Extract by Mask", "...
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PerpendicularOffset is not working for vector tile

I want to create an application using vector tile. I am using openlayers v.5 and geoserver 2.14.1 for this purpose. In geoserver SLD i have added OGC filter which filters geometries on the basis of ...
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How to get bounding box of WMTS request

I want to create an application using vector tile. I am using openlayers v.5 and geoserver 2.14.1 for this purpose. I have already rendered vector tiles, but not able to get bounding box of the vector ...
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Seeking free tile server like mapbox studio?

Is there any free tile service/server like mapbox studio so that I can upload my .shp files and it will work like it does in mapbox studio tiles and get geojson tiles on Leaflet.js map?
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How to pass viewparams with vector tile request using open layers 5

I want to create an application using vector tile. I am using openlayers v.5 and geoserver 2.14.1 for this purpose. I have already rendered vector tiles, but not able to pass viewparam along with ...
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Adding Pop-Ups to vector tiles layers (ArcGIS Online)

I've been trying to get Pop-Ups to work on a published vector tile layer, but can't seem to get them to work. I followed this help document - https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/data/services/use-...
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Does the PostGIS ST_AsMVTGeom function perform geometry simplification on the fly?

PostGIS now comes with a set of functions that allow to generate Mapbox Vector Tiles. Among them, the ST_AsMVTGeom allows to transform a geometry into the coordinate space of a tile (typically ...
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List of outdated tiles without using psql/osm2psql

I have a .mbtile file containing tile data from OSM. I'd like to keep the .mbtile file up to date with the latest changes from OSM. I don't have a postgres running locally that I could update using ...
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GeoServer & GeoWebCache - Issues with tile origins when setting alignTopLeft=true for a gridSet

I'm finding an unexpected behavior when setting alignTopLeft=true at geowebcache.xml for a gridSet. When I am navigating on the map within the same cache level everything works fine (even zooming in/...
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Highlighting polygons of Mapbox tileset on hover?

I am trying to highlight polygons from a Mapbox tileset on a map on hover. Based on Mapbox's tutorial I am adding a feature state hover to the data that is set through mousemove and mouseleave events. ...
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Are there any command line tools that convert GeoJSON to tiles directly

Are there any command line tools to convert .geojson files to tiles in PNG format? I have read about many questions regarding the same but I didn't find any concrete answer/implementation. Planning ...
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How to generate a correct HTTP response for a pbf within AWS API Gateway?

I am attempting to implement this approach to serving vector tiles from PostGIS using a lambda function and an AWS API Gateway Method: https://www.sparkgeo.com/blog/vector-tile-server-using-postgis. ...
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Understanding Vector Tiles?

I'm having trouble understanding the concept of a Vector tile. My understanding of Vector is point, line, polygon. So buildings, roads, areas etc. My understanding of Raster is a grid of pixels each ...
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Is it possible to add OS Open Carto vector tiles to QGIS 3?

I am interested to learn whether it is possible to view Ordnance Surveys OS Open Carto vector tiles in QGIS - I am using QGIS 3.4.2. The data I would like to add can be found here, and I have tried ...
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Implementing Access Token in Tile Server?

I am using Tileserver-GL for rendering vector tiles to web and mobile. For web, I am using Mapbox JS API GL and for Mobile, I am using Mapbox android SDK. Currently, I am using flat URL given by ...
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Reverse Engineering of Vector tiles and Tiles Security

I am using the following workflow to generate and visualize vector tiles. Store edited shapefile to PostGIS Create vector tiles using Tippecanoe from PostGIS data Serve vector tiles through ...
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Does OpenLayers 4.6.5 (or latest 5.3.0) support reprojection of VectorTiles in MVT format?

I have been setting up my own MVT-service, which takes some GeoJSON input and convert it to MVT tiles. Then I've used Open Layers 4.6.5 to render the tiles. The testdata I have been playing with is ...
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Is it possible to serve vector tiles directly from S3?

I have seen that it is possible to use S3 as a storage backend for vector tile servers such as Tegola. These work by fetching the tile from S3, then serving it through an application server. Is there ...
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Why use GeoServer or Tegola to generate vector tiles from PostGIS rather than ST_AsMVT? [duplicate]

I don't have much experience generating vector tiles dynamically. Instead I use Tippecanoe. I'm looking at generating tiles from PostGIS and see at least three options: PostGIS + Geoserver (with ...
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Tile boundary issue with ST_AsMVT

I have been following a post here to create vector tiles direct from my database. My data is in WebMercator. I am using the query: SELECT ST_AsMVT(tile) FROM (SELECT dh_id, ...
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Extracting data from vector tile package (.vtpk) using ArcGIS Pro?

I have been provided with 1m land contours in a vector tile package (.vtpk). It is 14GB. Is it possible to extract the data from the .vtpk into a geodatabase? I have access to ArcGIS Pro 2.2, ...
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PBF vector tiles reach the client through Apache HTTP Mod_rewrite, but not shown in Leaflet. How to show these PBF in Leaflet?

In short: This is about proxy-ing access to OpenMapTiles (OMT) by Apache Http. The proxy works hence the PBF tiles from OMT reach the client. However Leaflet fails to draw the PBF tiles in the map. ...
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Mapbox multiple filters to layers

I'm new to Mapbox GL and want to understand how i would go about the following; I have 5 principle layers (from the same source, all vector tiles from Geoserver) which will only be drawn in ...
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ArcGIS Pro - cannot match vector tiling scheme

I want to create vector tiles so my map features will draw super fast as tiles and yet be queryable for pop ups. I need to create a vector tile index before creating the vector tile package but keep ...
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Is it possible to add vector tile layer published by GeoServer layer using ArcGIS JS API？

GeoServer can publish vector tile layer in format of “application/x-protobuf;type=mapbox-vector”, and I believe the ArcGIS JavaScript API supports this format. So is it possible to add vector tile ...
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Mapserver with tileindex to Mapbox

I have many tif files in a single directory which I want to show as a layer in Mapbox. Starting with Mapserver (running a Docker container) to publish the tifs as PNG raster layer. I receive png ...
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PostGIS St_AsMVT latitude incorrect at low zoom levels

I'm using the St_AsMVT feature in Post GIS to create mapbox tiles. This works ok at high zoom levels (>9) but at lower levels the latitude appears to be significantly off...which gets worse as the ...
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How zooming Google Maps works regarding the new projection?

Please help understanding how tiles now work on Google Maps. As I understand (these are all assumptions, please feel free to correct) the following happens: Google Maps now work with orthographic ...
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Custom feature ids from GeoServer

i've come across an issue with the generated feature ID from GeoServer. The generated ID is a concatenation of the layer id and the feature primary key, rendering something like 'assets-1234566' say. ...
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How to style with mapbox a custom mbtile?

I have uploaded in my tile server a mbtile which I have created from a shapefile. I am trying to display this using the mapbox style but I am not sure what parameters to pass in the source-layer The ...
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Geoserver MVT v2

Is there a geoserver extension (2.13.x) to generate MVT in spec v2 or some plan to include it within the extension or other plugins that allow to generate mvt v2?
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T-rex tile server with postgis (windows) : utf-8 encoding error

I want to use T-rex as vector tileserver on Windows. I load osm.pbf file (from geofabrik) to PostGIs dataBase with osm2pgsql successfully. When I run the server with the following commands, I get the ...
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OpenLayers 5 Vector Tiles Styling and ESPG:4326 projection issues

I have a OL5 map using a projection of EPSG:4326. I am adding a Vector Tile layer with a projection of ESPG:4326. I am using Open Layers Mapbox Style (https://github.com/boundlessgeo/ol-mapbox-style) ...
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How to set Tomcat to completely prevent browser from caching my PBF vector tile?

I need to publish a geometry table (in PostGIS) as a layer of vector tiles (in PBF format) in GeoServer. As the table is dynamically written by a production web app, i need to set the layer's caching ...
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Getting started generating vector tiles

I am working on an app that displays a nice map. Currently, we use raster tiles, but we'd like to switch to vector tiles. We want the freedom to add all the information we want, so we want to create ...
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Openlayers Vector label density

I am rendering vector tiles and the roads are made up of many line segments. Each segment has a line layer and symbol layer in the vector tile. I am getting repeated labels along main roads made up ...
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Vector tile layers over 3D terrain

I have a set of vector tile layers I'm hosting (mbtiles) on Mapbox. Currently, I'm using Leaflet to overlay these on a 2D satellite view and works. However I'm wanting to add in some features to my ...
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How to get vector tiles to self-host

The question Self-hosting Mapbox vector tiles pointed to the ability to self-host MBTiles formatted tiles (an open specification, the MB is not related to Mapbox I don't think). The answers to the ...
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Vector Tiles VS Raster Tiles for leaflet

I have downloaded many vector tiles in the mbtiles format from OpenMapTiles. The reason I did that is because I will be using them on a station that cannot have an internet connection at all. I would ...
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How to get GeoServer Vector Tile work

I have a spatial table in PostGIS that gets written (Insert/Update/Delete) by a production web app. Almost every minute there's write to the table. The app shows the geometry of the table on web ...
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Creating Vector MBTiles?

I am searching for a tool to generate vector-tiles that I can then display using the Mapbox Map-View. We currently have a postgres database with all of our data. What is the best tool to generate ...

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