Map tiles are small square images forming the appearance of a single interactive map. These tiles are used to render map features at different levels of zoom and detail. Tiling is a technique used to replace map services generating a single image for the entire map. Tiling significantly improves map viewer performance. Which is a basis for the map tile server.
To use interactive maps in your web or mobile application, one must usually choose a tiling server and a tiling protocol to provide map tiles. strues-maps.lt provides one of those map tile servers with all the data already configured and ready to use via API. It is easy to integrate into your website or mobile application. strues-maps.lt map tile server supports both TMS (also known as XYZ tiling) and WMTS (web map tiling service) protocols. To increase the speed and responsiveness of maps, it is recommended to use JPEG compression images for feature rendering, which strues-maps.lt also provides.
Embedded maps are usually used to provide website visitors with custom data on top of our maps. It is also used to facilitate application users with location-related services. The most common use of maps is to display company assets on the map, company headquarters, or customer service departments. Guide agencies might use embedded maps for touring and regional information. Camping companies might use interactive maps for custom hiking, cycling, and walking trails. Skiing resorts might overlay our base maps with slopes. Last-mile companies might use our maps to organize routes of parcels from the nearest hub to their final destination. Real estate agencies might use embedded maps to inform customers of the surroundings of properties they are offering. NGOs might publish geographic data on the spread of human or animal diseases. Any of these cases will use a map tile server to provide compelling visualizations of their data.
Our map tile server is compatible with any javascript library supporting XYZ or WMTS tiling protocol like Leaflet.js or OpenLayers. Using our server reduces development prices, and enables you to avoid administration costs and infrastructure costs. It provides the engineering team with API documentation and real-life examples.
Tile server has ready-to-use detailed boundaries of administrative divisions. Maps are rich with land use areas like residential, industrial, parking, farmland, forest, grass, and wetland for those interested in area use trends. There is also detailed road data like service roads, tracks, footways, cycleways, taxiways, motorways, rails, etc. Hydrographic features are also included in maps like water areas and waterways. Water area data includes basins, water bodies, reservoirs, and so on. Waterways like ditches, streams, rivers, drains, piers, dams, and canals are visible in our base maps. At higher zoom levels one can observe detailed street maps, buildings, and places of interest like airports, shopping centers, amusement parks, hospitals, colleges, and universities.
The map tiling approach improves embedded map interaction in websites and applications. Using a tiling server for base maps not only improves performance but also provides developers with fast development and base data for their visualization.