New York City DoITT has interest in developing apps using vector tiles to replace the use of Google Maps Engine and authoring tiles in ArcGIS.
Is the ability to author and publish vector tiles on the geoserver roadmap? If so, is there a date? If not, does it need funding?
-Tim Keane
Hey Tim,
I’ve been looking at what it would take to add vector tile support in GeoTools/GeoServer recently. Mostly looking at protocol buffers and how they would integrate. All in all I think it would be pretty straight forward, I did some pbf feature encoding for an r&d project a while back, not vector tiles and not with GeoTools but I think the same approach could be used.
Not sure if anyone else is working on this at the moment. But yeah, funding always helps 
-Justin
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Keane, Tim <tkeane@anonymised.com> wrote:
New York City DoITT has interest in developing apps using vector tiles to replace the use of Google Maps Engine and authoring tiles in ArcGIS.
Is the ability to author and publish vector tiles on the geoserver roadmap? If so, is there a date? If not, does it need funding?
-Tim Keane
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive@anonymised.com>
wrote:
Hey Tim,
I've been looking at what it would take to add vector tile support in
GeoTools/GeoServer recently. Mostly looking at protocol buffers and how
they would integrate. All in all I think it would be pretty straight
forward, I did some pbf feature encoding for an r&d project a while back,
not vector tiles and not with GeoTools but I think the same approach could
be used.
I've also been looking at that. This library could help (with some fixes,
just glancing over the code I've spotted at least one issue):
https://github.com/ElectronicChartCentre/java-vector-tile
Not sure if anyone else is working on this at the moment. But yeah,
funding always helps
Cannot confirm funding either but there is some interest around... whether
it is going to turn into
an actual development or not, it's yet to be seen.
Cheers
Andrea
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