Archive: Vector-tiles

Planetiler can create planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data in a few hours on a single machine without any external tools or database. Read more about it here.

This blog post introduces the ST_AsMVT PostGIS function which enables building lightweight tile services that can convert map tile requests into binary Mapbox Vector Tile representations.

Here is a fork of the tippecanoe tool originally developed by Mapbox that allows building vector tilesets of large collections of features in different formats, including FlatGeobuf.

This article introduces the launch of Google Earth Engine FeatureView assets, a new data type for rapid rendering of vector datasets with pre-computed map tiles. Read more here.

OpenStreetMap's familiar styling is now available for developers to adapt and use with vector basemaps. Get the cartography users recognize with all the benefits of vector tiles.

Esri has released new vector basemap styles, including styles based on their OpenStreetMap vector tileset. You can also customize any of these styles using the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.