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Mapbox Vector Tile specification
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2014-06-05 · latest 2025-09-04
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…data). >we continue to research additional optimizations for VT, Can you elaborate? The spec ( https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec ) has not had an update in 4 years, and since MVT v2 did not include any substantive changes, the…
comment by stevage · 2025-09-04 · in How to build vector tiles from scratch -
…like Geojson coded in protobuf it is then rendered to raster in the browser using webgl typically. https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.0 SVG is an XML based format that browsers render naitively, completely different.…
comment by SigmundA · 2025-07-23 · in Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org -
Thanks! I just browsed the spec again ( https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.1 ) -- I didn't have as bad of a reaction as I did the first time I looked at it. I guess the idea of using (Google) protobufs for the…
comment by timmg · 2024-02-12 · in 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps -
…21600 geometry: 0 geometry: 15 } extent: 4096 version: 2 } Geometry interpretation is here: https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/tree/master/2.1#4... And produces this geometry before reprojecting to the tile coordinates: Layer name:…
comment by jleedev · 2022-04-22 · in The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015) -
…is open source: https://github.com/mapbox/node-fontnik * A tiled data format that is open source: https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec I hope this licensing change can spur some competition among open source renderers. I’d recommend…
comment by bdon · 2020-12-08 · in Mapbox-gl-js is no longer under the 3-Clause BSD license -
…purpose compressed raw signed integers vs. their zig-zag and delta encoded vector tile geometries. https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/issues/35#issue-1...
comment by mxfh · 2016-09-15 · in Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts -
…for producing the protobuf data from PostgreSQL/PostGis/Osm open source ? This is this lib ? https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec Using this spec ? https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec
comment by hokkos · 2014-08-07 · in Mapbox GL for the Web -
…do this with image tiles. Vector tiles are the more efficient way. More details on the encoding at https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec and the encoder at https://github.com/mapbox/mapnik-vector-tile
comment by danespringmeyer · 2014-06-05 · in Introducing Mapbox GL