Installing the Vector Tiles Extension

1. Login, and navigate to About & Status > About GeoServer and check Build Information to determine the exact version of GeoServer you are running.

2. Visit the website download page, change the Archive tab, and locate your release.

   From the list of Output Formats extensions download Vector Tiles.

   • 3.0.0 example: vectortiles
   • 3.0-SNAPSHOT example: vectortiles

   Verify that the version number in the filename corresponds to the version of GeoServer you are running (for example 3.0.0 above).

3. Extract the archive and copy the contents into the GeoServer library WEB-INF/lib directory located in:

   • GeoServer binary Jetty: <GEOSERVER_ROOT>/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib
   • Default Tomcat deployment: <CATALINA_BASE>/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib

4. 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.