Closed alexander-petkov closed 4 years ago
Check out Mapbox GL used as a platform to display vector data:
https://blog.mapbox.com/announcing-mapbox-gl-for-the-web-16a41e07df43
Some good tips on optimizing geometry storage in Postgis: http://www.danbaston.com/posts/2018/02/15/optimizing-postgis-geometries.html
Here is an example of extracting building footprints within some distance of a coordinate pair:
https://aws.wfas.net/geoserver/bing/wfs?
service=WFS&version=1.1.0
&request=GetFeature&typeName=bing%3Anearest_buildings
&outputformat=shape-zip&viewparams=lon:-114.014429;lat:46.861;distance:100
Explanation:
GetMap result for the above parameters:
Follow the WPS Request examples wiki for getting a count for features intersecting a geometry.
Add vector building footprints to the Geoserver catalog.
Data source:
https://github.com/microsoft/USBuildingFootprints