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Is the only vector tile format supported here Mapbox Vector Tiles? It's a great format, but I'm wondering if there's also support for simple tiled GeoJSON.
Didn't it have shapefile support since forever? What's the difference?
If I was Only interested the data for a small region, I only need to download the tiles that cover the region, rather than a potentially global dataset.
Alternately, the wider zooms tend to have aggregated information, so you can still get a sense of the data at global scale.
Didn't it have shapefile support since forever? What's the difference?
Shapefiles are a large, monolithic thing. Vector tiles are like the png tiles that you see in mapping applications, only with vector rather than rendered data. If I was Only interested the data for a small region, I only need to download the tiles that cover the region, rather than a potentially global dataset. Alternately, the wider zooms tend to have aggregated information, so you can still get a sense of the data…
In case anyone was wondering what the broader appeal here is—the plugin is not specific to MapTiler. It looks like any Mapbox GL JSON compatible-theme can be used ( https://github.com/maptiler/qgis-maptiler-plugin#load-a-map-... ), which includes most vector and raster styles from Mapbox, Stadia Maps, Jawg Maps, and many others. (Disclosure: I cofounded Stadia Maps.)
So, curious to see if this new method of loading tiles resolves this issue (or, if a more recent version of Q resolves it - as I was using the previous LTS last time I tried this).