How to get going with map integration?

[krzkrzkrz]

How do we go about integrating this with a map? The documentation is pretty straightforward with adding/retrieving data into the tile38 server.

But not very clear on how we can visualize this on a map

[amitkumar3968]

I think, this might help you. https://medium.com/@s32x/mapping-11m-geonames-points-with-tile38-c9d326461b23

[krzkrzkrz]

Not quite. Came across that earlier too. Article speak from a general perspective. May have missed it, but I dont see anything anywhere about pulling out data from tile38 and loading it somewhere into a map

Maybe the question Im really asking is, how do I pull out all data stored in tile38 so I can display it in a map

[tidwall]

I'm assuming that you want to display objects on a Web Mercator map like Mapbox or Google Maps. I recommend querying using the TILE option.

INTERSECTS myobjs TILE X Y Z

This will return all the object overlapping the tile. The XYZ coordinates are compatible with https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/coordinates

You'll probably need some type middleware that sits between the browser and Tile38, which would translate the Tile38 results into the format needed from the JS API.

[sweco-semtne]

Hi! First of all I would like to thank you for the great work with Tile38! Thanks! Would it be possible to extend the tile command to provide a tile size and have all geometries in the tile translated to a local tile reference?

So if you provide a XYZ TILESIZE, where TILESIZE would be an integer value, ie 4096, Tile38 would give you translated coordinates to relative the tile size. I guess the translation from XYZ to lat/lon bounds are already part of the code so this would be an extension to translate the coordinates on the way out.

Bad idea?