2025-10-04 –, Talks I
In this talk I will describe the pros and cons of using the pmtiles vector tile format in comparison with other tile formats. I will then talk about some of the tools available to generate pmtiles tiles based on OSM data and other GIS formats, inspect these tiles and visualize them on a website. Finally, I will demonstrate how I built in the real world a data pipeline to filter and transform OSM data, combine it with other data from external sources, generate pmtiles using the tools previously described and implement a website to display the generated tiles on a map.
tiles,vector tiles,pmtiles,visualization
I am a computer engineer from Imola, northen Italy. I work as front-end web developer at GELLIFY and study Artificial Intelligence. I am an open-source and open-data enthusiast and contributor and since 2017 I'm part of the OSM community both as a contributor and as a developer of visualizaion tools. This year I have been nominated vice-president of Wikimedia Italia, italian OSMF local chapter.