Overview

The Tiling service can be used to display even massive multidimensional datasets on a map. Data is rendered into relatively small raster tiles and clients can load them to compose a view of a larger area. This is a widely used concept and Platform utilizes the following industry standards/formats in Tiling service endpoints:

• OGC WMTS
• XYZ format.

In the platform tiles can be:

• generated using the TilingWriter
• appended using the TilingAppender
• updated using TilingUpdater

Input is a multidimensional model produced for example by MDReader, Dfs2Reader, DfsuReader and more multidimensional data readers.

The tiling service supports also serving of map vector tiles. Vector tiles can be imported into the platform using VectorTilingZipWriter and VectorTilingZipUpdateZipWriter. The platform can host vector tiles generated for example by tippecanoe software. A sample command line to generate the tiles in a docker container is: docker run -it -v [LOCAL_DIRECTORY]:/data metacollin/tippecanoe tippecanoe --no-tile-compression --output-to-directory [/data/OUPUT_FILE_LOCATION] [/data/INPUT_FILE_LOCATION]