[Qgis-developer] Any plans for implementing vector tile generation on QGIS Server?

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Nikolai

Most vector tile generators can work with any WMS in the background. 
E.g. using MapCache with QGIS server should be perfectly possible.

Regards,
Marco

On 06/18/16 10:13, Nikolai Bezdna wrote:
> I’d like to know if there are any plans for enabling serving vector 
> tiles from QGIS Server, so they can be used in client libraries like 
> Mapbox GL afterwards. Seems like GDAL (OGR really) MVT driver is stuck 
> in development and there already are some stand-alone implementations, 
> like utilery (https://github.com/tilery/utilery) or Mapnik vector tile 
> (https://github.com/mapbox/mapnik-vector-tile), but nothing is 
> integrated with QGIS server. Since Mapbox and ESRI adopted MVT, and 
> most major web basemaps (like Google, Apple etc.) are already vector 
> tile based, it seems like QGIS is running a bit behind in this field. 
> So it would be great to start a discussion on utilising vector tile 
> spec within QGIS.
>
> Cheers
>
>
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