Slice GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly in the browser.
Example of integration with geojson-vt library.
import 'ol/ol.css';
import GeoJSON from 'ol/format/GeoJSON';
import Map from 'ol/Map';
import OSM from 'ol/source/OSM';
import Projection from 'ol/proj/Projection';
import VectorTileSource from 'ol/source/VectorTile';
import View from 'ol/View';
import {
Tile as TileLayer,
VectorTile as VectorTileLayer,
} from 'ol/layer';
// Converts geojson-vt data to GeoJSON
const replacer = function (key, value) {
if (value.geometry) {
let type;
const rawType = value.type;
let geometry = value.geometry;
if (rawType === 1) {
type = 'MultiPoint';
if (geometry.length == 1) {
type = 'Point';
geometry = geometry[0];
}
} else if (rawType === 2) {
type = 'MultiLineString';
if (geometry.length == 1) {
type = 'LineString';
geometry = geometry[0];
}
} else if (rawType === 3) {
type = 'Polygon';
if (geometry.length > 1) {
type = 'MultiPolygon';
geometry = [geometry];
}
}
return {
'type': 'Feature',
'geometry': {
'type': type,
'coordinates': geometry,
},
'properties': value.tags,
};
} else {
return value;
}
};
const map = new Map({
layers: [
new TileLayer({
source: new OSM(),
}),
],
target: 'map',
view: new View({
center: [0, 0],
zoom: 2,
}),
});
const url = 'data/geojson/countries.geojson';
fetch(url)
.then(function (response) {
return response.json();
})
.then(function (json) {
const tileIndex = geojsonvt(json, {
extent: 4096,
debug: 1,
});
const format = new GeoJSON({
// Data returned from geojson-vt is in tile pixel units
dataProjection: new Projection({
code: 'TILE_PIXELS',
units: 'tile-pixels',
extent: [0, 0, 4096, 4096],
}),
});
const vectorSource = new VectorTileSource({
tileUrlFunction: function (tileCoord) {
// Use the tile coordinate as a pseudo URL for caching purposes
return JSON.stringify(tileCoord);
},
tileLoadFunction: function (tile, url) {
const tileCoord = JSON.parse(url);
const data = tileIndex.getTile(
tileCoord[0],
tileCoord[1],
tileCoord[2]
);
const geojson = JSON.stringify(
{
type: 'FeatureCollection',
features: data ? data.features : [],
},
replacer
);
const features = format.readFeatures(geojson, {
extent: vectorSource.getTileGrid().getTileCoordExtent(tileCoord),
featureProjection: map.getView().getProjection(),
});
tile.setFeatures(features);
},
});
const vectorLayer = new VectorTileLayer({
source: vectorSource,
});
map.addLayer(vectorLayer);
});
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>geojson-vt integration</title>
<!-- Pointer events polyfill for old browsers, see https://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/elm-pep"></script>
<!-- The line below is only needed for old environments like Internet Explorer and Android 4.x -->
<script src="https://cdn.polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=fetch,requestAnimationFrame,Element.prototype.classList,URL,TextDecoder,Number.isInteger"></script>
<script src="https://mapbox.github.io/geojson-vt/geojson-vt-dev.js"></script>
<style>
.map {
width: 100%;
height:400px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="map" class="map"></div>
<script src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
{
"name": "geojson-vt",
"dependencies": {
"ol": "6.6.1"
},
"devDependencies": {
"parcel": "^2.0.0-beta.1"
},
"scripts": {
"start": "parcel index.html",
"build": "parcel build --public-url . index.html"
}
}