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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It generates vector tiles based on WMS requests. MapCache computes the proper extent based on the requested tile and then kicks off a WMS call for vector tile.
The pull request creates support for a new generic “raw” format. MapCache doesn’t know much about files in this format, just a mime-type, so things like metatiling, image processing or tile assembly aren’t supported. You do get the cache management though.
The raw format is not specific to vector tiles so you could use it for other formats like GeoJSON or UTFGrid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Anyway, in my mapcache.xml file I have the following setup:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><!—define a new raw format to use for MapBox vector tiles --><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><format name="MVT" type="RAW">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <extension>mvt</extension><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <mime_type>application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile</mime_type><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></format><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><!—this WMS source fetches MapBox vector tiles (.mvt) --><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><source name="wms_mvt" type="wms"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <http><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <url>http://mapserver.localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?</url><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </http><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <getmap><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <params><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <LAYERS>sna,wma,lakes,major_roads,places</LAYERS><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <FORMAT>application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile</FORMAT><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <MAP>/Users/sdlime/work/mvt-demo/demo.map </MAP><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </params><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </getmap><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></source><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><!—and finally the tileset --><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><tileset name="mvt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <source>wms_mvt</source><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <grid>g</grid><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <cache>disk</cache><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> <format>MVT</format><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"></tileset><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Then, if you look at the simple.json file in my demo repo you just change the source for the vector tiles layer to reference MapCache (I was running as FastCGI)
instead of MapServer (mode=tile), so from:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">"tiles": ["http://mapserver.localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/Users/sdlime/work/mvt-demo/demo.map&mode=tile&tilemode=gmap&tile={x}+{y}+{z}&layers=all&map.imagetype=mvt"],<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">"tiles": ["http://mapserver.localhost/cgi-bin/mapcache.fcgi/gmaps/mvt@g/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt"]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">One thing to note is that you can control the resolution that each tile is created at. Each tile has a grid associated with it and that is used to convert the
features to a grid-based coordinate system. The higher the resolution of that grid the more detail is represented in the tile. The default is 4096x4096. You can change that value via the MVT output format, for example:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">OUTPUTFORMAT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> NAME “mvt”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> DRIVER MVT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> FORMATOPTION “EXTENT=512”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">A smaller resolution or extent will generally result in smaller tiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">--Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Miha Požauko [mailto:mihapozauko@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 26, 2018 3:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <steve.lime@state.mn.us><br>
<b>Cc:</b> mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mapserver-users] Status of MVT vector tiles?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">I found that pull request before thanks, will play around with it some more. When you say it relies on WMS requests does that mean it generates raster tiles or vector tiles in PBD file
format? I don't have mine mapcache example working yet so i don't know what to expect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">About canceled requests i found related "issue" discussed on leaflet forum:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394"><a href="https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.VectorGrid/issues/136">https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.VectorGrid/issues/136</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">But i don't see a problem with that because all entities are loaded on my map.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">I will have to find that secret souce yes, will try to optimize my map file for different scales. Pregenerated vector tiles would also help.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">Thanks for your answers. Will track your github for further updates.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#0B5394">Miha </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">V V pon., 25. jun. 2018 ob 23:57 je oseba Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <<a href="mailto:steve.lime@state.mn.us">steve.lime@state.mn.us</a>> napisala:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will do. I have a working MapCache example on my dev box that I can share pieces from. First step is to get MapCache working with the pull-request I submitted some time ago. It relies on WMS requests to MapServer for the MVT tiles. Pull
request is at:<br>
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<a href="https://github.com/mapserver/mapcache/pull/166" target="_blank">https://github.com/mapserver/mapcache/pull/166</a><br>
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Regarding the canceled requests:<br>
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I'm not sure what up with those. However, I don't believe those are a server issue, rather a client-based. You can see the same behavior on other sites using vector tiles from other services (<a href="https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/dataset/osm/#0.23/0/-26" target="_blank">https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/dataset/osm/#0.23/0/-26</a>)
in Chrome DevTools. Could be related to pre-fetching resources.<br>
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Regarding a unresponsive browser:<br>
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There's likely a secret sauce in terms of the matching min/max scales you should offer a layer at, whether you should manage multiple resolutions of your data on the server and other filtering. The demo is very naïve in that regard so you can end up with big
tiles. At this point it's not something I can offer a ton of help with - I don’t have a production MVT application yet.
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Steve<br>
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From: mapserver-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>] On Behalf Of mp-surv<br>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2018 6:28 PM<br>
To: <a href="mailto:mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Status of MVT vector tiles?<br>
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Hey Steve.<br>
I have a working demo using your data and when zooming out not all vector<br>
tiles load and browser becomes unresponsive (image below). To avoid<br>
overloading my computer when zooming out and causing my browser to crash I<br>
would like to use mapcache, but I'm struggling to set it upt. Can you please<br>
give a working example using mapache?<br>
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<<a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/t368111/Capture.png" target="_blank">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/file/t368111/Capture.png</a>>
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I can see there are also a lot of canceled requests but they are not causing<br>
my browser to crash. Do you know what produces them?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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