[gdal-dev] Vector Tiles in OGR

[Blake Thompson]

Even,

He is correct that MBTiles can store vector tiles. I know this is done in
https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe . I believe there is talk about
updating the MBTiles Spec as well.

Thanks,

Blake Thompson

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le mardi 05 janvier 2016 19:33:32, Petr Pridal a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is anybody working on an OGR driver for mapbox-like vector tiles (PBF
> > blobs) stored in MBTiles or downloaded from a url via curl?
>
> Hi Petr,
>
> I was involved in discussions a few months ago where Mapbox Vector Tiles
> read/write support would have been part of a larger project, but I'm not
> sure
> if/when this will come true.
>
> I see you mention MVT in MBTiles. Is it a recognized practice ? I don't see
> mention of that neither in the MVT spec (
> https://github.com/mapbox/vector-
> tile-spec/tree/master/2.0 ) nor the MBTiles one (
> https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/blob/master/1.2/spec.md ),
> although I
> guess it is just a matter of storing a MVT blob in the tile_data column.
>
> Even
>
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