A nice demo of vector tiles using different of the options I mentioned below (polymaps,leaflet, D3): http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/vector-tile-river-map.html
Apart from serving the geometry, ideally the formatting from the map/layerdefinitions should also be served (using SLD or something simpler). On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Johan Van de Wauw <[email protected]> wrote: > Some ideas: > > Polymaps: can consume vector tiles. Demo at: > http://polymaps.org/ex/statehood.html > > Openlayers plugin: > http://openlayerstools.sourceforge.net/src/Strategy_TFS.js > > Leaflet has gained more popularity. > A custom verion of leaflet is also used by giscloud. Also here plugins > that support tiled geojson: > https://github.com/glenrobertson/leaflet-tilelayer-geojson > > Not really a gis viewer yet, but many people are working on it based > on d3. See eg: https://github.com/d3/d3-plugins/tree/master/geo/tile > and http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5593150 > > I'm interested in helping out. > > Johan > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Jackie Ng <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Does anybody know what JS mapping libraries out there currently support or >> consume layers based on vector tiles? >> >> I've been reading up a bit on vector tiles. This looks like something that >> is very doable for MapGuide as the majority of the plumbing and >> infrastructure to do this is already there. >> >> - Jackie >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Vector-tile-support-Was-re-HTML5-client-side-viewer-Was-re-Re-thinking-Fusion-redlining-efficiency-tp5067003.html >> Sent from the MapGuide Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> mapguide-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users _______________________________________________ mapguide-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users
