Dynamic vector tiles straight from the database
The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography
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Show Notes
Episode #53 - Serving dynamic vector tiles might not be as difficult as you think. Paul Ramsey from Crunchy Data starts off by walking us through the early days of PostGIS, explaining what a vector tile is and the advantages over image tiles before explaining how you can easily and safely serve your own data as vector tiles straight from a PostgreSQL database.
further reading
Querying Spatial Features with pg_featureserv Spatial Tile Serving with PostgreSQL Functions Tile Serving with Dynamic Geometry
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