[Bedon292]

I commend you for actually digging into it and trying to understand the format. I have used them plenty but hadn't really dug into their internals. As you are adding more data layers, it may be worth looking at Geoserver [1]. You can load the data in and let it handle the tile generation and caching. Even if you don't use it, the Vector Tiles extension [2] may be a useful reference for implementing it.

[1] https://geoserver.org/

[2] https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/main/src/extensi...

[ajd555]

Thank you! I'll take a look, this looks great

[stevage]

Op-ed: No. You don't need Geoserver. The main benefit of using Geoserver is operating a service that provides many different kinds of layers to different users, and being able to manage them through a web interface. Every time I have deployed Geoserver I have regretted it.

Geoserver does not really do much directly: it's just a kind of web glue for various kinds of backends. So for tile generation, you're better off using Martin (https://maplibre.org/martin/martin-cp.html) or similar.