Installing the Vector Tiles Extension¶

1. From the website download page, locate your release, and download: geoserver-2.19-SNAPSHOT-vectortiles-plugin.zip

   Warning

   Make sure to match the version of the extension to the version of GeoServer.

2. Extract the archive and copy the contents into the GeoServer WEB-INF/lib directory.

3. Restart GeoServer.

To verify that the extension was installed successfully

1. Open the Web administration interface

2. Click Layers and select a vector layer

3. Click the Tile Caching tab

4. Scroll down to the section on Tile Formats. In addition to the standard GIF/PNG/JPEG formats, you should see the following:

   • application/json;type=geojson

   • application/json;type=topojson

   • application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile

   

   Vector tiles tile formats¶

   If you don’t see these options, the extension did not install correctly.