Generate vector tile styles


The most important advantage of vector tiles is that the tile data and tile styles are independent of each other. You are allowed to change the display effect of a tile map by modifying tile styles without re-generating vector tiles.

A single function entrance for generating tile styles is provided by , and so you can generate styles corresponding with your map without changing tiles.

  1. Open your vector map and right click your mouse in the map window and then select “Vector Tile Style…” to open the “Generate vector tile style” dialog box.
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  2. Specify a path for saving the generated style files.
  3. There are three result folder including fonts (the font of texts in tiles), sprites (content resources of styles of icons in tiles), styles (a style description file)
  4. Replace the original style files with the new style files to display vector tiles in new style.