Stefan Brand
Cartographer, Vector Data and Python GIS Specialist | Loved by Christ, blessed by the Father. Never satisfied with superficial answers. Youth ministry leader. Reading, cooking, (train) traveling, board games, jigsaw puzzles, pilgrimages.
Sessions
10-01
09:00
30min
Embracing FOSS for vector tile pipelines in 2021 - 2 case studies
Stefan Brand
End of last year we at EOX decided to go all-in on open source vector tiles (MVT). We had two use-cases:
- An interactive Vue/Django web app visualizing millions of agricultural fields along with dynamic properties
- Rendering vector and raster tiles from the same data source using the same style document and in multiple projections (web mercator and geodetic)
Along the way, we found a consolidated FOSS ecosystem that had lost many contributors to proprietary lands. However, we also encountered some real FOSS gems (pg_tileserv, django-vectortiles) and a legacy tool (tileserver-gl) that we hacked into rendering non-web-mercator raster tiles from MVT.
Software
Buenos Aires