[MapProxy] Looking for Vector Data Proxy Server
Just van den Broecke
just at justobjects.nl
Tue Oct 10 02:24:55 PDT 2017
Hi,
Another route is to extend MP for Vector Tiling. This
question/suggestion came up earlier on this list:
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapproxy/2016-January/002291.html
A clean solution would be helped by sponsored development.
Best,
Just van den Broecke
On 10-10-17 01:34, Anne Blankert wrote:
> Hello Dominic Napoleon,
>
> Most web server software such as Apache httpd, NginX and HAproxy are
> capable of proxying any http or https requests. So these can also be
> used for proxying of (vector-) tiles and WFS.
>
> Besides just proxying raster data, MapProxy has several other features,
> such as caching, reprojecting and support for multiple service types
> (wms, wms-c, tms, wmts, etc.) plus providing capabilities (service
> metadata) and extra services like legend requests or feature info requests.
>
> If you want similar features for vector data, such a proxy software
> would be able to retrieve vector data from many different sources, cache
> the data as vector tiles and would be able to reproject and stitch tiles
> together in order to support several vector data retrieval formats and
> services (wfs, kml?, geojson?, ).
>
> I am not currently aware of such vector-data proxying software. If
> anyone knows about a project that does for vector data and services what
> MapProxy does for raster data and services, I would also very much like
> to learn about that.
>
> One solution might be NginX configured as a caching proxy for proxying
> vector tiles from a remote source. Such an NginX service would only
> support vector tiles. If tiles are in the cache, NginX can deliver them
> very quickly. If not available, you can configure NginX to retrieve new
> tiles from for instance a database or other external source. Remote
> sources are mostly much slower but retrieval needs to be done only once
> per unique vector data tile.
>
> Another solution might be Geoserver. Geoserver can convert many
> vector sources into vector tiles. It also supports WFS. However, I
> believe Geoserver cannot currently retrieve and manage vector tiles or
> WFS data from remote servers / services (=proxying) very efficiently?
>
> Anne
>
>
>
> 2017-10-09 19:17 GMT+02:00 Napoleon, Dominic
> <dominic.napoleon at rgi-corp.com <mailto:dominic.napoleon at rgi-corp.com>>:
>
> Hey all,
>
>
> I'm looking for a solution like MapProxy but which supports proxying
> vector map data, like vector tiles or WFS. Is there such a program
> out there already that can cache and serve vector data?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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>
>
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>
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