Vector tiles

Vector Tile Stacks

The obvious one

• ESRI ArcGis Pro - generate tiles
• ESRI ArcGis Enterprise - serve tiles
• ESRI ArcGIS API for Javascript - browser support

In this blog post ESRI says they based their API on mapbox-gl.js. Amusingly ESRI doesn't seem to index this page, if you search for mapbox, only some unrelated article comes up.

The ESRI basemaps seem to be all raster based only at this time, though I have this link: http://basemapsbeta.arcgis.com/preview/app/index.html

The open source tools

Instead of putting many links here, just look at this firehose of open source vector tile resources: https://github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles

Vector base maps

These are generally free services at the levels I will be using them.

• https://openmaptiles.org/
• http://mapbox.com
• https://www.mapcat.com/
• https://thunderforest.com/