With the development of Web GIS, there are increasing demands for map display and data transmission. Map tiles have emerged as an effective solution to enhance the efficiency of map service access. This technology improves user experience, optimizes operational performance, and saves working time. It has become a mainstream graphic display technique widely adopted in modern geographic information systems. The implementation of this technology significantly enhances the efficiency of graphic data browsing and reduces waiting time for map loading and navigation.

SuperMap provides an end-to-end technical solution for map tiles covering production, management, and publishing, helping you improve map service efficiency with simplicity and speed.

Figure: SuperMap Tile Technology Solution

To help you understand map tile concepts and effectively utilize SuperMap's tile-related features, this chapter introduces the following content:

• Tile Overview: Explains fundamental concepts of map tiles, including supported tile types, storage formats, and recommendations for tile usage.
• Tile Production: Introduces different tile generation methods, including single-process map caching, multi-process tile generation, resumable tile creation, and tile updating.
• Tile Management: Demonstrates how to merge, convert, and inspect tiles.
• Tile Publishing: Guides you through publishing existing tiles as services, including local tile publishing and MongoDB tile publishing.