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Short examples and articles to help our users.
Getting Started
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Map Tools
Modular geospatial tools that evolve alongside your data.
Add some character to your custom vector tiles with an intuitive style editor.
Combine multiple styled vector tiles into a single map.
Simple example and template for displaying a web map directly from a PostGIS database using ST_AsMVT.
Displaying too much data when a map is zoomed out takes too long. The zoom level controls of DB2Vector provide a solution.
Include a simple geometry manipulation, such as buffer, bounding box or simplify.
Include a simple SQL statement in your query, such as all counties with area over a certain size.
Take the union over all polygons that a query returns and display the union in the web map.
Topo Map Tiles
Fast map tile delivery for all 60,000 USGS Topo maps. Zoom and pan across a nationally updated USGS Topo map.
Terrain Tiles
Our hillshade, slope and aspect map tiles give your webmap 3D content.
Display our customizable terrain tiles in a map using the Leaflet JavaScript library.
Allow end-users to set colors of regions by elevation
Simple example of aspect, hillshade and slope centered on Mount Fuji.
Hillshade is a simple and beautiful way to bring a map to life and give a 3D impression of terrain.
This simple example shows the slope of the coastline in a large park.
Allow an end-user to set a slope threshold, such as 20 degrees, and recolor the map to show all regions with a slope greater than 20 degrees.