Vector tile feature - Githubissues

Benjaki2 commented 3 years ago

Hello! This a very cool project.

I am looking into adjusting the particle animation layer in order to make it work with vector tiles. Do you all have any higher-level suggestions for getting started before I get too far? Would this feature be something of interest to you all?

gberaudo commented 3 years ago

Hi @Benjaki2. Thanks for your message. What do you mean by working with vector tiles?

Benjaki2 commented 3 years ago

@gberaudo thanks for getting back to me. I am working with vector tiles that have point geometries with associated magnitude and direction values. I would like visualize these points as particles animating along streamlines.

gberaudo commented 3 years ago

@Benjaki2, there is no activity on this repository. At least at the moment. If I understand well, you would like the source of data to come from several tiles instead of one (big) file.

Yes it should be possible but requires some developments:

choose a tiling strategy;
generate the tiled data;
change the code so that the correct file needed at a particular place is downloaded;
use the right one for each particle and handle the coordinate system;
it should be a pyramid of tiles for dealing with different level of details. There are tiling grids in OpenLayers, maybe it is possible to make use of them.

I am definitely interested if you comes with something on that matter.

gberaudo / olwind

Vector tile feature #7