With the development of Web GIS, there is a higher demand for map display and transmission in the industry. Map Tiles is a very effective way to improve the efficiency of Map Service access. It is a technology to improve user experience, improve operational efficiency and save working time. It is a graphic display technology widely used in the mainstream geographic information system. The emergence of this technology makes the browsing process of graphics data efficient and smooth, and shortens the waiting time of loading and browsing maps.

Map Tiles refers to a Map Tiles file that contains a series of scales and a certain Map Bounds. Map Tiles is organized in a pyramid structure, with each tile marked with a unique level, row, and column number. When panning and zooming the map, the browser calculates the required Tile according to the pyramid rule, and obtains and splices it from the Tile server.

Figure: Map Tiles Pyramid Structure Diagram

SuperMap provides Map Tiles technical solutions for the whole process of Tile production, management and release, helping you to improve the efficiency of Map Service simply and quickly.

Figure: SuperMap Tile Technical Solution

To help you understand Map Tiles and use the functions of SuperMap Map Tiles more effectively, the following five aspects will be introduced to you:

• Map Tiles Overview: You will learn about the Map Tiles type supported by SuperMap, Tile's storage type and Using Map Tiles Recommendation .
• Vector Tile : Explains the concept of Vector Tile and describes how to Generate Vector Tile.
• Tile Production: You'll learn about different ways to Generate Map Tiles, Contains Single-task cutting graph , Generate Map Tiles by Multiple Tasks , Continue to Tile、Update Tile。
• Tile Management : will show you how to Merge , Convert , Check , etc.
• Publish Map Tiles: It introduces how to directly Publich Service the existing Tile. Including Publish Local Tile and Publish MongoDB Tile .

Related topics

Tile production

Map Tiles Storage Type

Recommendations for using Map Tiles

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