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:
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]