Support vector tiles

[krabina]

Feature request:

The Austrian Basemap now supports Mapbox 2.0 format: https://www.data.gv.at/2019/06/25/basemap-at-vektor-tile-cache/

Vector tiles have advantages regarding size of data transported and are probably the future of mapping services.

Maps extension therefore should support this (as soon as it is avialable in leaflet or openlayers). https://docs.mapbox.com/vector-tiles/specification/

AFAIK there are some first plugins: https://github.com/SpatialServer/Leaflet.MapboxVectorTile https://openmaptiles.org/docs/website/leaflet/ https://openlayers.org/en/master/examples/mapbox-vector-tiles.html

[krabina]

a list of leaflet plugins is here: https://leafletjs.com/plugins.html#vector-tiles the most active projects seem to be Leaflet.VectorGrid and geojson-vt

[akuckartz]

MapBox library since 2.0 is no longer Open Source. See https://carto.com/blog/our-thoughts-as-mapboxgl-js-2-goes-proprietary/ and fork https://maplibre.org