Today, MapQuest is pleased to announce the release of a new vector tile creation library, python bindings and associated utilities, avecado (a-VEC-ado). We hope that you may find it of some use and that it will be useful by having another[1] tool available.
https://github.com/MapQuest/avecado It requires C++11, a development version of Mapnik 3.0, Boost, Python, and mapnik-vector-tile, the last of which is included as a submodule. We hope that, after the official release of Mapnik 3.0, that we can stabilise that requirement. Avecado consists of four parts: - The library itself. - Python bindings for the library. - avecado, a simple command-line utility for producing vector tiles. Since each invocation loads a Mapnik map, this is not recommended for generating large volumes of vector tiles. However, it can be useful for one-off testing and debugging of datasource definitions. - avecado_server, a very simple HTTP server which serves vector tiles according to the input Mapnik map. The HTTP server is extremely basic and, while it might be useful for ad-hoc testing purposes, is not suitable for production use. - scripts/override_xml.py, a utility for altering settings in an XML datasource configuration. This is useful for correcting or overriding any settings which may be different between the output of Mapbox Studio, or your configuration files in version control, and your local or production setups. The library has two functions: - make_vector_tile, which adds geometry from a mapnik query to a vector tile object. - process_vector_tile, which applies post-processing operations such as generalization and merging like attributed features. These are not yet implemented. [1] http://youtu.be/NoLJHgqDCzc?t=10m17s _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
