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Vector tiles in QGIS 3.14

by vami on 6/22/20, 8:33 AM with 13 comments

  • by twelvechairs on 6/22/20, 12:47 PM

    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.

  • by lukeqsee on 6/22/20, 11:02 AM

    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.)

  • by klokan on 6/22/20, 9:10 AM

    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.

  • by Jiri_Komarek on 6/22/20, 10:13 AM

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

  • by Jiri_Komarek on 6/22/20, 9:31 AM

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

  • by NelsonMinar on 6/22/20, 2:57 PM

    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.

  • by AlexTrask on 6/22/20, 12:25 PM

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

  • by orthoxerox on 6/22/20, 4:40 PM

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