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Tile-level properties (Values)

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the vector tile specification and the existing layer-level metadata rules. Define whether tile coordinates and user-defined tags belong in the format, including their required semantics and encoding, then document the agreed behavior in the specification and confirm that the proposal is internally consistent.

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Description

Before Layers tile could have general tile metadata tags, such as:

  • x, y, zoom - tile coordinates could be standard, maybe even mandatory. Enables decoding tile data without knowing the context (URL, full file path) of it.
  • User-defined tags - whatever encoder wishes to add there: source, update date, copyright, link to docs etc
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