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AGILE: GIScience Series Open-access proceedings of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe
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AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 67, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-67-2022
AGILE GIScience Ser., 3, 67, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-3-67-2022
 
11 Jun 2022
11 Jun 2022

Open source vector tile creation for spatial data infrastructure applications

Andreas Georg Wallner1, Thomas Piechl2, Gernot Paulus1, and Karl-Heinrich Anders1 Andreas Georg Wallner et al.
  • 1Carinthian University of Applied Science (CUAS) - Spatial Information Management, Villach, Austria
  • 2Amt der Kärntner Landesregierung, Klagenfurt, Austria

Keywords: tiling vector data, generalisation, web mapping, PostgreSQL

Abstract. Accessing geospatial data via the internet is a common way for data integration. This web mapping approach often relies on web services like the web map tile service (WMTS) for accessing maps or the web feature service (WFS) for accessing vector data. An alternative way, which combines aspects like the higher performance through tiling and the usage of vector data is the usage of tiled vector data. This short paper describes an approach for the creation of tiled vector data using standard PostgreSQL, with spatial extension PostGIS, functionality. For that, custom PostGIS functions are implemented to select relevant vector data out of the PostgreSQL database, dynamically generalize/simplify geometries and transform the data to Mapbox mvt format. This approach of creating tiled vector data shall be used for further implementations of web maps for building more efficient spatial data infrastructures.

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