Hi, Although it will not change the issue to support vector tiles in QGIS Server, TileStache does support PBF. It's just that you need the forked version from Mapzen e.g https://github.com/mapzen/TileStache/blob/integration-1/TileStache/Goodies/VecTiles/mvt.py
Cheers Thomas Gratier 2016-06-19 1:51 GMT+02:00 Nikolai Bezdna <[email protected]>: > Hi Marco, > > As far as I know vector tiles can’t be generated out of WMS services, > because WMS spec is mostly used for getting raster images (GetMap request) > or feature information (GetFeatureInfo request) and some others. > I guess you meant WFS really, but I don’t know any caching server > implementations that use WFS as a background and generate vector tiled PBFs > (particularly in Mapbox Vector Tiles spec > <https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec>). > I didn’t use MapServer MapCache <http://www.mapserver.org/mapcache/>, but > according to the docs it doesn’t support vector tiles, only raster ones. > MapProxy and TileCache don’t support them either. TileStache can produce > vector tiles out of OGR datasource, but in GeoJSON format, which is way > heavier than PBF, even gzipped. > So the good way to go would be to use the OGR MVT driver, but > unfortunately it’s not released and the status of it’s development is > unknown. While web is moving fast towards in-browser rendering (OpenLayers3 > and Mapbox GL already utilise WebGL for that) it’s becoming clear QGIS > server should support vector tiles at some point. Should I start with a > feature request maybe? > > Regards, > Nick > > From: Marco Hugentobler <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Any plans for implementing vector tile > generation on QGIS Server? > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi Nikolai > > Most vector tile generators can work with any WMS in the background. > E.g. using MapCache with QGIS server should be perfectly possible. > > Regards, > Marco > > On 06/18/16 10:13, Nikolai Bezdna wrote: > > I’d like to know if there are any plans for enabling serving vector > tiles from QGIS Server, so they can be used in client libraries like > Mapbox GL afterwards. Seems like GDAL (OGR really) MVT driver is stuck > in development and there already are some stand-alone implementations, > like utilery (https://github.com/tilery/utilery) or Mapnik vector tile > (https://github.com/mapbox/mapnik-vector-tile), but nothing is > integrated with QGIS server. Since Mapbox and ESRI adopted MVT, and > most major web basemaps (like Google, Apple etc.) are already vector > tile based, it seems like QGIS is running a bit behind in this field. > So it would be great to start a discussion on utilising vector tile > spec within QGIS. > > Cheers > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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