The draw primitives don’t have topology. They’re just path/fill.
As a trivial example, if you get a vector tile with a line up the middle, would your client code style the left or right side as water? Brad From: Matt Hakim <thep...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, 17 November 2018 8:16 PM To: andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] slow vector tiles Many thanks for your reply. I followed your thread on the devel list as well. We are using Vector tiles so we can apply styling on the client (openlayers) when a feature is selected. For our scenario, if the output Vector tile just included the Polygons that would have been rendered into the PNG anyway then that would be fine (I think). I had a bit of a look through the geotools StreamingRenderer.java and it seems to deal with simplifying geometries and rendering shape primitives using java's Graphics2D, StreamingRenderer interestingly also calls TopologyPreservingSimplifier (similar to Vector output tiles). Conceptually, could you capture the draw primitive requests going to Graphics2D and instead output them in Vector tile format? Wouldn't that work at the same speed as the Raster output tiles (or even faster as no styling is applied)? Obviously I'm dreaming here (and it would take me months to understand StreamingRenderer...) In the meantime we simplified our geometry to 10% of the original size which while slow, maintains the health of our server for the initial tile generation after which they are cached anyway. Matt. On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 8:41 PM Andrea Aime <andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it <mailto:andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it> > wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the dataset and a first glance at it confirmed that it taking a long time to display is, I'm afraid, just normal, at least with a dataset having a single geometry with over 1.5 million points. You have a very detailed australian coastline there, and vector tiles require the geometry in output, inside the vector tile, to be topologically correct. Doing a topology preserving geometry simplification and clipping against a source geometry having this many points is just going to take a lot of time. Rendering in WMS instead we can use much more efficient algorithms that do not preserve the geometry topology, hence the "instant" response time. I think I've spotted a bit that could be made faster, but I am not the maintainer of the vector tiles modules, so going to discuss it on the devel list, but generally speaking, I'd try to avoid having to deal with such complex polygons in vector tiles caching, and if you do, just be patient and let the machinery take the time needed to build the tiles. A quick trick to improve things could be to split this large polygons into smaller ones, for example by pre-clipping it over a regular grid (OpenStreeMap has been doing this for years to make world coastlines manageable). Cheers Andrea On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 8:16 AM Matt Hakim <thep...@gmail.com <mailto:thep...@gmail.com> > wrote: We are having an issue with very slow (>60s) generation of Vector tiles (mapbox) via open layers TMS calls. This can be reproduced through the geoserver web interface on the "Tile Layers" page. The same tiles seem to be generated very quickly in the PNG format. We are running geoserver 2.14 on linux with 2GB heap. The vector tile generation appears to create a lot of garbage - so much that sometimes "OutOfMemory: heap" or "OutOfMemory: gc time exceeded" messages appear in the log. Steps to reproduce: 1. Install geoserver 2.14 and Vector tile output extension 2. Download shapefile "Australia (AUS) ASGS Ed 2016 Digital Boundaries in ESRI Shapefile Format" from web site: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.001July%202016?OpenDocument 3. Load above shapefile into a datastore & enable "mapbox" tile output format. 4. Navigate to the "Tile Layers" web page in geoserver. For the layer created from the above shapefile, choose "mapbox" in the Preview dropdown. 5. Preview will display albeit extremely slowly. 6. You may need to restart geoserver. 7. Perform step 4 above instead choosing "png" in Preview dropdown. 8. Preview displays instantly. 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