TileCubes Specification

TileCubes is a specification for transferring temporal or categorical geospatial data. TileCubes have been used in a number of production projects since 2011 without public documentation or description of their implementation. This specification is meant to allow any data service provider to begin serving TileCubes for rendering data on the web.

Versions

• Release - [2.0] (https://github.com/CartoDB/tilecubes/blob/master/2.0/spec.md)
• Development - [1.0] (https://github.com/andrewxhill/tilecubes/blob/master/1.0/spec.md)

Changelog

Roadmap

• specification
• client
• examples
• interactivity
• flexible dimension number
  • In the future, data can be multidimensional (e.g. Month:Gender:AgeGroup), however V1.x is limited to Key:Value (e.g. Month:Gender) and Key:Value repetitions (e.g. Month:Gender, Month:AgeGroup)

1.0

Concept

TileCubes utilizes the client side resolution for rendering to optimize the transfer of multidimensional data for maps.

Implementations

• GBIF Link
• CartoDB Link

Authors

• Andrew Hill (andrewxhill)
• Javier Santana (javisantana)
• Javier de la Torre (jatorre)
• Sandro Santilli (strk)
• Tim Robertson (timrobertson100)

The authors of the draw upon two existing specifications to guide the development and publication of TileCubes,

• MBTiles Tile Map
• Service