Vector tiles
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vector-tiles-204-3480027
title:
Vector tiles
text:
Vector tiles, tiled vectors or vectiles are packets of geographic data, packaged into pre-defined roughly-square shaped "tiles" for transfer over the web. This is an emerging method for delivering styled web maps, combining certain benefits of pre-rendered raster map tiles with vector map data. As with the widely used raster tiled web maps, map data is requested by a client as a set of "tiles" corresponding to square areas of land of a pre-defined size and location. Unlike raster tiled web maps,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Packets of localized geographic data in vector format
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_tiles
date created:
2014-08-24T14:11:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T09:03:15Z
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