Migration Guide for v1.0 Mapzen Vector Tiles

migration-guide-v1.0-mapzen-vector-tiles.md

This is a cheat sheet summarizing the v1.0 Mapzen Vector Tiles CHANGLELOG's major breaking changes that we used to update Mapzen house styles.

• Topic
  • example Tangram scene file YAML old > new

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• new tile url sources:

  • https://vector.mapzen.com/osm/all/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt > https://tile.mapzen.com/mapzen/vector/v1/all/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt

• every layer: sort_key property renamed to sort_rank

  • feature.sort_key > feature.sort_rank

• every layer: boolean values yes > true (for everything except oneway)

  • water layer:
    • boundary: yes > boundary: true
  • roads layer:
    • is_tunnel: yes > is_tunnel: true
  • roads layer:
    • is_bridge: yes > is_bridge: true
  • roads layer:
    • is_link: yes > is_link: true
  • boundaries layer:
    • maritime_boundary: yes > maritime_boundary: true
  • building, earth, landuse, and water layers:
    • label_position: yes > label_position: true

• roads layer: highway property renamed to kind_detail

  • highway: [trunk, primary] > kind_detail: [trunk, primary]
  • highway: secondary > kind_detail: secondary
  • highway: [tertiary, tertiary_link] > kind_detail: [tertiary, tertiary_link]
  • highway: service > kind_detail: service
  • highway: [steps, track] > kind_detail: [steps, track]
  • highway: pedestrian > kind_detail: pedestrian
  • highway: track > kind_detail: track
  • highway: steps > kind_detail: steps

• roads layer

  • Natural Earth

    natural_earth_roads:
        * filter:
        *   * - $zoom: { min: 5, max: 8 }
        * major_road:
        *   * filter: { kind: major_road }
        * minor_road:
        *   * filter: { kind: minor_road }
    

  • for OSM roads in mid and high zooms, optionally:

    osm_roads:
       filter:
           - $zoom: { min: 8 }
    

• roads layer: man_made > kind_detail

  • man_made: [pier] > kind_detail: [pier]

• roads layer: aeroway > kind_detail

  • aeroway: taxiway > kind_detail: taxiway

• roads layer: aerialway > kind_detail

  • aerialway: [gondola, cable_car] > kind_detail: [gondola, cable_car]

• boundaries layer: admin_level > kind_detail

  • admin_level: 2 > kind_detail: 2

• pois layer: sport > kind_detail

  • feature.sport > feature.kind_detail
  • sport: basketball > kind_detail: basketball

• places layer: type > kind

  • type: country > kind: country

• buildings layer: building area are funky at mid-zooms now because of merging

  • use new scale_rank to filter instead of area at zoom 13 and 14

  • zoom 13

    - { $zoom: [13], area: { min: 50000 } }
    - { $zoom: [13], height: { min: 250 } }
    - { $zoom: [13], volume: { min: 200000 } }
    

    to

    - { $zoom: [13], scale_rank: [1,2] }
    

  • zoom 14

    - { $zoom: [14], area: { min: 5000 } }
    - { $zoom: [14], height: { min: 190 } }
    - { $zoom: [14], volume: { min: 150000 } }
    

    to

    - { $zoom: [14], scale_rank: [1,2,3] }
    

  • Where scale_rank is defined in this table:

      area,height,volume,landuse_kind,scale_rank
      >=100000,*,*,*,1
      *,>=250,*,*,1
      *,*,>=300000,*,1
      >=20000,*,*,*,2
      >=5000,*,*,+,2
      *,>=150,*,*,2
      *,*,>=150000,*,2
      >=5000,*,*,*,3
      >=3000,*,*,+,3
      *,>=100,*,*,3
      *,*,>=100000,*,3
      >=1000,*,*,*,4
      >=500,*,*,+,4
      *,*,>=50000,*,4
      +,*,*,*,5
    

• buildings layer: kind properties are now kind_detail

  • kind: [university, college, school, kindergarten] > kind_detail: [university, college, school, kindergarten]
  • kind values in buildings are now building or building_part (in addition to address & etc)

• places layer: scalerank > min_zoom

  • you can generally remove the scalerank filters completely from low zooms, as well as source filters.
  • at mid zooms you can still mix and match Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap features to "backfill" low or no pop places.
  • scalerank: [0] > min_zoom: [2]
  • scalerank: [1] > min_zoom: [3]
  • scalerank: [2] > min_zoom: [4]
  • scalerank: [3] > min_zoom: [5]
  • scalerank: [4] > min_zoom: [5]
  • scalerank: [5] > min_zoom: [6]
  • scalerank: [6] > min_zoom: [6]
  • scalerank: [7] > min_zoom: [7]
  • scalerank: [8] > min_zoom: [9]
  • scalerank: [9] > min_zoom: [9]
  • scalerank: [10] > min_zoom: [10]

• boundaries layer: scalerank > min_zoom

  • scalerank: [0] > min_zoom: [7] (yeah, right! this was to fix bad data, see Hungry)
  • scalerank: [1] > min_zoom: [2]
  • scalerank: [2] > min_zoom: [2]
  • scalerank: [3] > min_zoom: [3]
  • scalerank: [4] > min_zoom: [5]
  • scalerank: [5] > min_zoom: [5.5]
  • scalerank: [6] > min_zoom: [6]
  • scalerank: [7] > min_zoom: [6.7]
  • scalerank: [8] > min_zoom: [6.8]
  • scalerank: [9] > min_zoom: [7]
  • filter: { scalerank: [0,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], $zoom: { max: 8 } } > filter: { not: { min_zoom: [1,2] }, $zoom: { max: 8 } }

• landuse layer (and pois that have areas from landuse polygons:

  • remove all the area filters
  • except:
    • kind: [garden, allotments]
    • kind: [police, fire_station, substation, plant, wastewater_plant, water_works]
    • kind: [cafe, restaurant, nursing_home]
    • kind: [parking, pedestrian, common, pitch, place_of_worship, playground, school, nursing_home]

• place layer: kind values

  • kind: [city, town] > kind: locality
  • kind: [village] > kind_detail: [village]
  • kind: [hamlet] > kind_detail: [hamlet]

• place layer: capital (and yes)

  • capital: yes > country_capital: true
  • state_capital: yes > `region_capital: true

• place and boundaries layers: region

  • kind: [state] > kind: [region]

• landuse layer: forest

  • some values are now natural_forest
  • but many values are still forest

• landuse layer: park

  • some values are now natural_park
  • but many values are still park

• landuse layer: wood

  • some values are now natural_wood
  • but many values are still work

• earth layer: continent labels

  • If you haven't updated for several versions, continent labels moved to the earth layer (from places layer)

• water layer: ocean and sea labels

  • If you haven't updated for several versions, ocean and sea labels moved to the water layer (from places layer)