Mapbox GL about kartotherian HOT 6 OPEN

Absolutelly! Technically you can already use it - by setting up your own labs instance with the fonts and js libs, and pointing it to the maps.wikimedia.org PBF files. We simply haven't had enough time to work on it, but patches are welcome :))

We need:

• a well documented way to generate font PBF files (IIRC, we need to use node-fontnik or another Mapbox script)
• Adapt Mapbox's GL style to use our tileset
• evaluate if we have any large tiles (e.g. above 500kb for now), and reduce their size

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I have created a small project to create a mapbox-gl-js package for own deployment. I have a very basic example working that just renders a GeoJSON (didn't have the time to try real vector tiles yet):
https://github.com/benstadin/mapbox-gl-js-packager

It should be almost complete, though I'll ask MapBox if it's possible to improve the resource location configuration and asset generation. It required some time to figure out how to create these assets and where to place them.

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Thanks, looks interesting. I am not sure we can use the fonts this way - they might be copyrighted, so we would have to use just the fonts that are known to be free, and generate pbf files from them. There is some considerable work to be done, but its sure is going to be fun ))

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For the font issue I wrote this, basing on existing code. I removed the gzipping part of the pbf because I couldn't configure apache correctly :-)
https://github.com/sabas/genfontgl
I played around with kartotherian serving pbfs on my remote server + local mapbox-gl-js

On the sprite issue I simply used the maki sprite made by mapbox, but to generate one by yourself is simple enough with spritezero https://github.com/mapbox/spritezero-cli

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I added maki marker generation to the kartotherian - see readme.

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For anyone interested, I was able to get a quick demo of mapbox-gl-js with kartotherian vector tiles by modifying this example: https://github.com/osm2vectortiles/mapbox-gl-js-example

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