Hello,

I would think of tiled vector map data as multi-resolution dataset, in several 
means more similar to multi-resolution raster datasets than vector datasets. 

But this would be interesting challenge. I assume you want to take some vector 
data (e.g. Shapefiles) and convert them to vector tiles. With shapefiles (and 
more or less any other GIS/OGR vector format what I know) you have just one 
resolution. You could take this and convert it to e.g. mapbox vector tile 
format, with given resolution (zoom level). Now to make it really usable in 
interactive web or mobile map you would need also lower level tiles. With 
ordinary rasters the lower level is made using quite clear downsampling. With 
vector tiles there are a lot of design-specific decisions - what layers to 
keep, what to remove (e.g. in usual map you have buildings in high resolution, 
but not in lower ones), what layers to transform or simplify. This depends on 
map design; so multi-zoom vector tileset is actually design-specific, not 
universial vector data what you can redesign anyway as you may think. So tools 
which create vector tiles have this kind of style (zoom/layer) definitions for 
conversion. You can use e.g. Mapnik to render vector data to vector tiles, it 
is more similar to creating raster maps than to convert vectors, I guess Mapbox 
works like that.

Considering these specifics adding OGR driver to write (and read) e.g. mapbox 
vector tiles, or mapsforge format should be doable. Note also that there is no 
single standard tiled vector map, there are some known vendor-specific formats, 
most popular ones seem to be mapbox vector tiles and mapsforge. If anyone is 
already working on this, then I would be interested also.


Jaak
Nutiteq


> On 05 Sep 2015, at 21:23, Ahmet Temiz <[email protected]> wrote:
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> hello
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> Is it possible to create tiled vector map with ogr ?
> 
> kind regards
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