Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

https://www.maptiler.com/news/2020/06/vector-tiles-in-qgis-3-14/

by vami • 6 years ago

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klokan• 6 years ago

Vector base maps for the entire world - with one click in QGIS - all in vectors for any place you choose.

This practically means printing OpenStreetMap in PDF in vectors - and beautiful native maps for your next GIS project.

Jiri_Komarek3• 6 years ago

Video by burdGIS describing the plugin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKoTBLxEu6w

Jiri_Komarek3• 6 years ago

https://github.com/maptiler/qgis-maptiler-plugin - GitHub repository for the plugin with README explaining how to use the plugin

lukeqsee3• 6 years ago

In case anyone was wondering what the broader appeal here is—the plugin is not specific to MapTiler.

It looks like any Mapbox GL JSON compatible-theme can be used (https://github.com/maptiler/qgis-maptiler-plugin#load-a-map-...), which includes most vector and raster styles from Mapbox, Stadia Maps, Jawg Maps, and many others.

(Disclosure: I cofounded Stadia Maps.)

ryantgtg• 6 years ago

This seems cool. In the recent past, I have made custom styles in mapbox studio, then used that as a basemap (via WMTS) in qgis. The dealbreaking issue at the time was that when exporting my maps to PDF, the basemap elements would scale based on the export’s DPI. So, a high quality map would have teensy street labels, and was thus unreadable.

So, curious to see if this new method of loading tiles resolves this issue (or, if a more recent version of Q resolves it - as I was using the previous LTS last time I tried this).

AlexTrask• 6 years ago

A part of this feature Qgis is a great tool made by people who works on GIS with an involved comunity

twelvechairs• 6 years ago

It's worth noting postgis has exported to mapbox vector tiles for some time (ST_AsMVT). While it's great to have in qgis it's not my pick of the new features (temporal data and new mesh features are)

qGIS has to be one of the standout open source projects these days up there with firefox. Its great to see.

lukeqsee3• 6 years ago

It's worth noting postgis has exported to mapbox vector tiles for some time (ST_AsMVT).

It's pretty conceivable to use ST_AsMVT now in QGIS to power a layer or two. We use QGIS pretty extensively to work with PostGIS tables already, so the ability to see the data in prerender stage (raw geometries) and all the middle and end stages (processed geometries and MVTs) we want is super powerful for anyone wanting to work with vector tiles and PostGIS.

NelsonMinar• 6 years ago

Is the only vector tile format supported here Mapbox Vector Tiles? It's a great format, but I'm wondering if there's also support for simple tiled GeoJSON.

lukeqsee3• 6 years ago

No, it already supports basically every other format, and has for a long time. The new bit is that it supports MVTs, not that it newly supports any sort of vector tiles.

orthoxerox• 6 years ago

Didn't it have shapefile support since forever? What's the difference?

wiredfool• 6 years ago

Shapefiles are a large, monolithic thing. Vector tiles are like the png tiles that you see in mapping applications, only with vector rather than rendered data.

If I was Only interested the data for a small region, I only need to download the tiles that cover the region, rather than a potentially global dataset.

Alternately, the wider zooms tend to have aggregated information, so you can still get a sense of the data at global scale.

Jiri_Komarek3• 6 years ago

yes + this plugin also loads styles, which means you get final map, not just data

Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

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