On 6/9/20 1:18 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote: > Something else to consider is whether technologies like WMS are > ultimately just "dead end" technologies now,
Definitely not agreeing here :-) > and possibly we'd be > better off focusing on client side rendering of vector features from a > server (QGIS or other), and providing a library which can do > client-side rendering of vector tiles from QGIS symbology in as close > to 1:1 as possible... For full blown nice reference maps or aerials WM(T)S is still the way to go. For simpler reference maps like Google, vector tiles will be... Building a QGIS rendering engine in a browser, will always be behind (IF it will ever reach the same amount of features). In my view the unique selling point of QGIS Desktop/Server combi is (or should be) the ease to create beautiful maps easily on a desktop and then publish them (including metadata) to a server/service... Just like our commercial brother does with it's services. And mind you: while not perfect WMS/WFS are real standards understood and used by a lot of servers and clients. Vector tiles are great (or at least promising), but I've not seen any client-side cartographic rendering of them yet. Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
