[MapServer-users] MB Tiles vs. UTF grids

[Scott]

I'm ill equipped to answer your question directly.

However, as you delve into the world of vector tiles I'd strongly 
suggest taking a look a FlatGeoBuf (.fgb). It's an index format 
supported by GDAL and MapServer. It's very fast and painless.

The home page has demo's for openlayers, leaflet and mapbox, using a 
single 12GB census data file. Leaflet seems to be the most responsive.

http://flatgeobuf.org/




On 9/2/22 15:22, karsten wrote:
> Hi All,
> For the first time, I am diving into actually using vector tiles and or 
> UTF grids on an OpenLayers map. I am confused  about UTF grids, 
> especially I could not find clear answers whether UTFGrids have been 
> completely replaced by MB Tiles or if UTF Grids are now a subset of MB 
> Tiles. Posts on the web seem to suggest that UTF grids can be stored 
> inside MB Tiles 
> <https://medium.com/@pyin001/utfgrid-and-mbtiles-map-file-decoding-on-android-864487697752>. 
> Note that I am trying to stay outside the Mapbox empire (as much as 
> possible) and trying to use GDAL, MapServeretc.
> GDAL can produce MB tiles (but not sure if that includes UTF grid info 
> as well) and MapServer can deliver UTF grid via WMS on the fly, but not 
> sure how performance is so far ...
> Would anyone have some insights ?
> Thanks
> Karsten Vennemann
> www.terragis.net <http://www.terragis.net>
> 
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