Have you seen this ol3 post? http://gijs.github.io/blog/2014/04/08/topojson-vector-layers-with-rotated-text-labels-in-ol3/
Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden Front-end Developer | Boundless @boundlessgeo On 09 Apr 2014, at 07:51, Luca Morandini <lmorand...@ieee.org> wrote: > G'day everyone, > > I know this has been proposed before, and taht there are vector tiles > available in OL3, but... we (the AURIN project) cannot wait for OL3, and we > do need vector tiles now. I was tasked with sounding out the feasibility of > it, hence bear me while I state my case. > > I have developed a nice vector tile server in Node.js, backed by PostGIS and > using CouchDB as cache; the output formats are GeoJSON and TopoJSON. > > To use the tiles produced by said server I need, of course, a client, > possibly one merging tiled polygons into the original ones when the format is > TopoJSON (the end result is a seamless layer). > > I developed such a client with Leaflet, backed by JSTS and D3 for the merging > bit, and it works rather well; I tried to do the same with OL3 Beta4, but > failed... hence I would like to give OL2 a try (our current UI is built on > OL2). > > Having said that, I would like to know what's the state of the art related to > TMS vector tiles in OL2. > As far as I know, there was an attempt (see links below), but it did not make > it to the code base: does anyone know if there had been a blocker during the > implementation of this capability ? > > In addition, I would love to here comments and hints on how to implement this > TMS-TopoJSON-cum-merging layer type. > > http://openlayerstools.sourceforge.net/src/Strategy_TFS.js > http://openlayerstools.sourceforge.net/examples/TFS.html > > Regards, > > Luca Morandini > Data Architect - AURIN project > Melbourne eResearch Group > Department of Computing and Information Systems > University of Melbourne > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
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