ThinkGeo UI 14.1 is Here
MBTiles Support
The MBTiles file format is an open specification based on the SQLite database. Files can contain raster or vector tilesets and it’s designed to allow you to package many files into a single tileset.
The new ThinkGeo MbTilesLayer can be used for your vector-based mbtiles and the MbTilesRasterLayer for raster datasets. You can find more details on these layers here and both classes are in ThinkGeo.Core which can be used on any of our map components.
To see a sample of the new MbTilesLayer in action, just clone the HowDoI samples from here, run the solution and then click on the ‘Display a MBTiles File’ under the ‘Map Offline Data’ section of the samples. This shows you examples of using the MbTilesLayer with a vector dataset styled with a .json file.
Note
Your style json file needs to conform to the Mapbox or MapLibre style specifications. You can find more details on the thinkGeo MBStyle class and styling here.
If your .mbtiles file is raster-based, simply use the MbTilesRasterLayer in the same way, but there’s just no need to pass in a .json file for styling since raster tiles are pre-rendered and cannot be styled by the client.
Come back later this week when we go into more detail on how to use the new MBTiles layers in your application.
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