On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, zach cruise <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/19/15, TC Haddad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Zach > > > > If you set up Mapserver to serve the original geojson layer as WFS > > service[1] with geojson output [2], you can then pass in the bounding > boxes > > (using the WFS URL parameter BBOX=) of the tiles that you want to create. > > > > You will get back the resulting geojson tiles as text in the browser and > > can save them to wherever you want to serve them from. > > > > [1] http://mapserver.org/ogc/wfs_server.html > > [2] > > > http://mapserver.org/output/template_output.html#outputformat-declarations > > i tried but you can't set zoom levels/precision with wfs [1] and geojson > [2]. > Yes - you must use BBOX= with WFS. You can get all the BBOX info you need by using globalmaptiles.py for your area of interest. You can get that script here: http://www.maptiler.org/google-maps-coordinates-tile-bounds-projection/ > > On 8/19/15, TC Haddad <[email protected]> wrote: > > OR, a much simpler process would be to use ogr2ogr and skip Mapserver > > entirely. > > > > see the clipping options mentioned here: > > > > http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html > > interesting. i tried gdal2tiles but it creates raster not vector tiles. > Yes OGR2OGR is for vector to vector conversions. Spatial extent options can be passed in using the BBOXes obtained from the same script mentioned above.
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