Using open source tools to create vector tile basemaps
May 17, 2017
Peter Keum
King County GIS Center/Wastewater Treatment Division
WA URISA 2017, Tacoma WA
CUGOS
Using open source tools to create vector tile basemaps
Using open source tools to create web map
Creating web maps with vector tiles
Vector tiles and the future of web maps
Another new new thing???
DEMO
- 5 County Parcels
- WA Building Footprints
WHOA!
Raster Tiles
- Don't Scale
- Hard to change
- Just Pictures, not data
Vector Tiles
language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for encoding structred data"
Similar to xml except smaller, faster and simpler
.pbf or .mvt
Vector Tiles
Similar to raster tile except it returns vector representation of feature in the tile.
- Scales
- Easy to change
- Smart data
Easy to Change!
Smart Data!
Preparing
Data
Creating
Vector Tiles
Styling/Rendering
Vector Tiles
Preparing Data
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Command line utilies for data processing and data translation
How to convert shp to geojson
Creating Vector Tiles
Command-line Utility tool to convert custom data to vector tiles
GeoJSON --> *.mbtiles
Styling Vector Tiles
Free visual style editor for designer and developers
Commercial visual style editor for designer and developers + so much more...
Rendering Vector Tiles
Open Source Vector Tile server with options
Preparing
Data
Creating
Vector Tiles
Styling Vector Tiles
Rendering Vector Tiles
THANK YOU!
peter.keum@kingcounty.gov
@pkeum
github.com/keum
WA URISA 2017- Vector Tile Basemap
By Peter Keum
WA URISA 2017- Vector Tile Basemap
WA URISA Tacoma, WA - May 17, 2017. Presentation on creating vector tiled basemap using open source tools. using local data to generate vector tiles and create webmap. Using gdal/ogr, tippecanoe and tileserver-gl server to create and serve vector data and web map.
