Tile Layers are a creative way to visualize large complex data. By visualizing data as an image the map control only needs to reposition a set of images rather than every single data point of the data. This greatly improves performance and often reduces the amount of data the user will have to download. Tile layers generally consist of a large number of images that have a specific naming convention and are hosted online. Every once and a while I get requests from people who want to be able to host the tile layers locally. Creating a local tile layer is not an easy task. In this blog post instead of going through the 900+ lines of code required to create a local tile layer I will describe the process required to create one and how to make use of the library I created in the code samples…READ MORE
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