[QGIS-Developer] Vector tiles

[Tom Chadwin]

Many thanks, Even - I hadn't seen that ticket.


Even Rouault-2 wrote
> the multi-scale approach of vector tiles doesn't fit well with the 
> traditional scale-agnostic vector layer approach. So somehow you need to
> assign each 
> vector tile zoom level to a cartographic scale range.

See my comment on that ticket re: mbtiles spec v1.3.


Even Rouault-2 wrote
> Another thing not covered by the OGR MVT driver is the merging of the
> geometries of 
> identical linear and area features split over several tiles

For display only, I guess merging is unnecessary - only cropping is
required.


Even Rouault-2 wrote
> The OGR MVT driver will appear in GDAL 2.3.0, expected to be release
> around May.

Wonderful. Amazing work.

Thanks again

Tom




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