Map Suite Vector Tile delivers worldwide coverage of OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth base layer data, and is available in MVT binary format. It can be consumed by kinds of clients or browsers to draw with any drawing engine, SVG, HTML 5 Canvas, WebGL, GDI+, Skia and more.
Why Vector Tiles?
Vector tiles allows for more efficient downloads and more rapid map updates than pre-rendered raster tiles that you might be used to. When changes are made to the OSM base layer, rather than waiting for an image tile to be redrawn, only the coordinates and drawing instructions for that particular building or road need to be updated. Depending on the URL syntax, vector tiles can return all of the OSM data, or just individual layers, or combinations of layers, including water, earth, landuse, roads, buildings and points of interest.
How Many Data Layers are Included?
There are 18 data layers included: Marine, Marine_name, Water, Water_name, Waterway, Landcover, Country, Admin_boundary, Country_name, Place, Aeroway, Building, POI, Road, Railway , Housenumber, Urban, Building_name.
What is the Data Source?
Map Suite Vector Tile Data sources from OpenStreetMap and Natural Earth, both of which are open data sets. The data is updated weekly on ThinkGeo servers keep with the latest data available. Generally speaking, Natural Earth is used at lower zoom levels, and OpenStreetMap is serving for higher zoom levels.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data pertaining to roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. It's open data ao you are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors.
Natural Earth
Natural Earth is a public domainmapdataset available at 1:10 million (1 cm = 100 km), 1:50 million, and 1:110 million map scales. Featuring closely integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth one can make a variety of maps with all commonly used cartography and GIS software. Natural Earth is designed to meet the needs of experienced cartographers using a variety of software applications.[1]
Natural Earth was built through a collaboration of many volunteers and is supported by theNorth American Cartographic Information Society(NACIS). It is free for public use in any type of project.
The dataset includes the fictitious 1-meter-square Null Island at 0°N0°E for error-checking purposes.[2]
How to Support name language localization?
Map Suite Vector Tile Data includes all language variants of the name_* values to enable full internationalization (when different from name).
What Geometry Types Included?
Geometry Types Included point, line, polygon.
Data Updates
Undetermined.
Changelog?
None.