road ahead for vector mapping craig williams, jeremy bartley, & yaron fine
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Road Ahead for Vector MappingCraig Williams, Jeremy Bartley, & Yaron Fine
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Agenda
• Why vector tiles?
• Vector tiles in ArcGIS
• ArcGIS content demo (styles etc.)
• Roadmap for vector tiles (APIs etc.)
• How we build them, what’s different
• Additional demonstrations
• Recap
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Web Mapping today
• Typically vector content (points, lines, polygons)
• Displayed on top of basemaps
• Since ~2005, basemaps have usually been raster tiles
• Dynamic updates of the map consist of two things:- Updating overlay content as drawn in client
- Changing the basemap
• Paradigm is changing
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Raster tiles for high dpi devices
Example from Google Maps
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Why vector tiles?
Raster is Faster, but Vector is Corrector – Joseph Berry
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Why vector tiles?
• GPUs have changed the landscape- On your devices (OpenGL)
- In your browser (WebGL)
- On your desktop (DirectX, OpenGL)
- Even in virtualized systems (vGPU)
• Vector data can remain vector
• Raster data still best served as raster in most circumstances
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Advantages of vector tiles
• Display quality- Best possible resolution for Retina displays
- Small efficient format
• Dynamic labeling- Clearer, more readable text
- On the fly labeling for heads up display
• Map Styling- Streets, Topo, Canvas from one tileset
- Day and Night mode
- User restyling
Labels rotate and flip
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Vector tiles in ArcGIS
• Tiles produced in ArcGIS Pro- Use the Mapbox vector tile spec
- Which uses Google protocol buffers
- Styling converted to Mapbox gl style spec
• More aggressive overzoom- Builds on generalization work done in past
ArcGIS releases
- More work and research to be done in this area
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Vector tile format
• Vector tiles are compressed into protocol buffers- Compact binary format for transferring data
- Data is organized into layers of geometry with key/value pairs of attributes
• A style file defines- The layer order
- Definition query for each layer
- Symbol information for each layer
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Preview of ArcGIS Basemaps
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Cooking process
• Entire world- ~ 8hrs on a desktop machine
- Tiles ~ 13 GB
- Styles share tiles
• Compared to raster- ~ many weeks on a server cluster per map style
- Tiles ~ 20 TB
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ArcGIS vector tiles roadmap
• Cooking tools to be released in ArcGIS Pro 1.2 (early 2016)
• Services in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server 10.4 (early 2016)
• Tile consumption- ArcGIS Runtime Quartz – Beta 2
- Ground up implementation
- ArcGIS Pro 1.2- Will share Runtime implementation
- ArcGIS JavaScript 4.0 API – Demonstration capability now in Beta 1- Currently uses mapbox-gl-js library
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ArcGIS vector tiles service
http://<catalog-url>/<folder>/<serviceName>/VectorTileServer
|--fonts/|--styles/|--sprites/|--tilemap/|--tile|--root.json
Optional export tiles capability
Service preview example
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Producing tiles in ArcGIS Pro
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4.0 Beta 1
Tiles in the JavaScript API
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Vector tile client code (Runtime)
• The client code is implemented in C++ and JavaScript
• The C++ code is using both OpenGL and DirectX for rendering
• Shared code across our platform
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Preview of Quartz implementation
Tiles in ArcGIS Runtime
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