Workshop will describe and demonstrate various open source geospatial tools to create vector tiles, style vector tiles, and build web-maps using vector tiles. Government open data will be used to demonstrate vector tile creation. Hands-on exercises will cover styling vector tiles and creating web maps. The Mapbox Studio workflow will also be explored.
Hands-on instruction will require a laptop with admin privileges, Mac/Windows 10 Professional/Linux.
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Learn to use the following open source tools for specific tasks (steps).
- GDAL/OGR - data format transformation; shp → geojson
- Tippecanoe - vector tile creation
- Tileserver-gl - vector tile web server publication
- Hands-on: Maptunik (local or web hosted version) - style vector tile data and export files for web-mapping
- Hands-on: Github Gist - publish vector tile web-map on-line to share
INTENDED AUDIENCE
- Desire to explore and learn new tools and workflow to enhance existing web-mapping skills is a must.
- Interest in Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) tools.
- Some GIS and web mapping knowledge will be helpful.
- Interest in discussing various vector tile workflows in order to obtain a broad overview of vector tiles for making web maps.
