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ArcGIS Tile Package Utilities
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.vtpk support? #19

Open sainsb opened 6 years ago

sainsb commented 6 years ago

Just curious if you plan to develop support for ESRI vector tile packages? Looks like most of what you've written here should support ESRI bundled vector tiles to mbtiles but some of the initial parsing of the config files will need to change...

brendan-ward commented 6 years ago

@sainsb we have no plans to do this development. We are willing to accept a PR that does for vector tiles what we currently do for raster tiles: basic conversion from ArcGIS format to MBtiles format, and doesn't substantially increase the complexity of this application.

I have never used ESRI vector tile packages, so I don't have a good sense of the level of effort involved. Seems theoretically possible.

Are ESRI Vector Tiles the same vector tile format as Mapbox Vector Tile specification requires?

pyRobShrk commented 6 years ago

According to this link, and this link, it appears it's based on the Mapbox format. They also credit the Mapbox vector-tile-spec in their ArcGIS Pro Acknowledgments.

brendan-ward commented 6 years ago

Thanks for looking into this further, @pyRobShrk

At present we do not have plans to add this ourselves; all our workflows to generate vector tiles are outside the ArcGIS ecosystem.

We are open to a PR that adds this functionality.