Crate map_tile_toolkit 

map-tile-toolkit

Clip integer polylines (LineStrings) into per-tile pieces on an integer tile grid, keeping the geometry’s original vertices. The result has every vertex inside a tile, plus the first vertex just outside wherever the line crosses an edge. No new vertexes are ever created. The tile may optionally include a buffer of [0..extent/2] size.

Usage

• Each feature may contain feature-level and vertex-level attributes (generic).
• SlicerAll accumulates every tile a polyline touches, even if there are no vertices in that tile.
• SlicerOne accumulates one fixed tile.
• Mosaic assembles tiles back into features, joining features that match on both sides of the edge, and rejecting inconsistent tiles. Mosaic does not require all original tiles to be added.

Add each feature (polyline), then read the pieces back through borrowed iterators — never owned Vecs. Nothing panics: bad input returns a TileError.

use geo_types::coord;
use map_tile_toolkit::{SlicerAll, TileError};

fn example() -> Result<(), TileError> {
    let line = [
        coord!{ x: 5, y: 5 },
        coord!{ x: 20, y: 20 },
        coord!{ x: 60, y: 40 },
    ];

    // `extent = 25` → 25-unit tiles;
    // `buffer = 0` = tight clip box (must be < extent / 2).
    let mut slicer = SlicerAll::new(25, 0)?;
    slicer.add_feature(&line)?;

    // tiles → features → polylines, each polyline in that tile's
    // local frame. A feature can yield several polylines
    // in one tile (the line left and re-entered).
    for tile in slicer.iter_tiles() {
        for feature in tile.iter_features() {
            for polyline in feature.iter_polylines() {
                // polyline: &[Coord<i32>]
                let _ = (tile.tile_id(), polyline);
            }
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}

SlicerOne::new(extent, buffer, tile) clips to one tile and skips the tile level (iter_features directly); it yields exactly what SlicerAll yields for that tile. add_feature is atomic — a failed polyline leaves the accumulator unchanged — and clear() resets it for reuse.

Coordinate space

The slicer is integer-only and dimensionless: extent is both the tile side and its output resolution (the vector-tile extent). A vertex x belongs to tile x.div_euclid(extent) and is emitted at x − tile·extent ∈ [0, extent); add tile · extent to recover global coordinates. Do all float/projection work up front (e.g. with geo). For web-mercator at zoom z: project, simplify, then apply one affine — scale s = 2^z · extent / circumference, translate the top-left corner to the origin, flip y, round to i32 — landing data in [0, 2^z · extent). buffer and Mosaic’s extent are in these same units.

Merging tiles back

Mosaic is the stateful inverse of SlicerAll: add tiles (each tile’s runs, in its local frame) and it reassembles whole features across borders in the global frame. It rejects a tile that is inconsistent with those already added — a shared segment that disagrees (coordinates or payload), or a tile that owns an endpoint’s cell yet fails to carry its edge (e.g. a line spanning into a neighbor the neighbor never corroborates) — naming the conflicting tile ids and leaving the mosaic unchanged. purge drops a tile; iter_features walks every reassembled feature.

use geo_types::coord;
use map_tile_toolkit::{Mosaic, SlicerAll, TileError};

fn example() -> Result<(), TileError> {
    let mut slicer = SlicerAll::new(25, 0)?;
    slicer.add_feature([
        coord!{ x: 5, y: 5 },
        coord!{ x: 60, y: 40 }
    ])?;

    let mut mosaic = Mosaic::new(slicer.extent())?;
    for tile in slicer.iter_tiles() {
        let runs: Vec<_> = tile.iter_features().flat_map(|f| f.iter_polylines()).collect();
        mosaic.add(tile.tile_id(), &runs).expect("consistent tiles never conflict");
    }
    for feature in mosaic.iter_features() {
        let _ = feature; // Vec<Coord<i32>> in global coordinates
    }
    Ok(())
}

Payloads

The slicers carry data on two independent axes: a per-vertex payload (the Vertex type) and a per-feature attribute (the A type). Use either, both, or neither.

Per-vertex payload

The slicers are generic over a Vertex (default Coord<i32>); Measured<M> pairs a position with any Copy + PartialEq payload (an M value, an id) that rides through slicing and merging unchanged — nothing is interpolated, since no new vertices are cut.

use map_tile_toolkit::{Measured, SlicerAll, TileError};

fn example() -> Result<(), TileError> {
    // Each vertex carries a payload (here an id); it survives slicing untouched.
    let mut slicer = SlicerAll::new(25, 0)?;
    slicer.add_feature([
        Measured::new(5, 5, 100),
        Measured::new(20, 20, 200),
        Measured::new(60, 40, 300),
    ])?;
    for tile in slicer.iter_tiles() {
        for feature in tile.iter_features() {
            for run in feature.iter_polylines() {
                let _ = run.iter().map(|v| (v.position, v.m)).collect::<Vec<_>>();
            }
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

Per-feature attributes (MVT-style)

Data that belongs to a whole feature — an optional id, a key/value property map — is not per-vertex, so it rides on the slicer’s second generic axis A (default (), a zero-sized type that costs nothing) rather than in the vertex payload. Attach it with add_feature_with(line, attr) and read it back per tile-piece with feature.attr() — no side table, no per-vertex handles. A only needs to be Clone.

use geo_types::{Coord, coord};
use map_tile_toolkit::{SlicerAll, TileError};

#[derive(Clone)]
struct Attrs {
    id: Option<u64>,
    name: &'static str
}

fn example() -> Result<(), TileError> {
    let mut slicer = SlicerAll::new(25, 0)?;
    slicer.add_feature_with(
        [coord! { x: 5, y: 5 }, coord! { x: 60, y: 40 }],
        Attrs { id: Some(1), name: "Main St" },
    )?;
    for tile in slicer.iter_tiles() {
        for feature in tile.iter_features() {
            let attrs = feature.attr(); // &Attrs, duplicated onto every tile the feature touches
            let _ = (attrs.id, attrs.name);
        }
    }
    Ok(())
}

A feature that is split comes out two ways — within one tile its runs stay grouped as a single feature (render a MultiLineString); across tiles its attributes are duplicated onto each tile’s piece. The two axes are orthogonal, so SlicerAll<Measured<M>, Attrs> carries per-vertex M and per-feature attributes at once. See examples/mvt_features.rs for the full round-trip emitting per-tile GeoJSON with ids and properties preserved.

Development

This project uses just (cargo install just); run just for the command list and just test to test. Tests are data-driven: each tests/fixtures/*.geojson polyline is sliced by both paths (asserted byte-identical) and snapshotted as a .geojson FeatureCollection (original line plus every per-tile piece) that renders on a map. Run just bless to regenerate snapshots. To inspect them, load tests/fixtures/grid.geojson (the tile grid, offset 0.5px to sit between integer coordinates) and the tests/snapshots/*.geojson files in QGIS or any GeoJSON viewer.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual-licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

Structs

FeatureView

A borrowed view of one feature’s clipped polylines within a tile, yielded by TileView::iter_features / SlicerOne::iter_features.

Measured

A Vertex carrying a measure/payload m (e.g. an M value) alongside its integer position.

Mosaic

Reassembles tiled features back into whole features as tiles are added.

SlicerAll

Slices integer polylines into per-tile pieces on an integer grid, accumulating every tile each polyline touches.

SlicerOne

Slices integer polylines into pieces for one fixed tile, accumulating only that tile.

TileId

A tile address on the integer grid. Coordinates may be negative.

TileView

A borrowed view of one tile’s accumulated features, yielded by SlicerAll::iter_tiles.

Enums

TileError

Something the slicer or combiner cannot process. Returned in place of a panic or a silently-wrong result.

Traits

Vertex

A polyline vertex the slicer can clip: an integer position plus an opaque Copy + PartialEq payload that is preserved verbatim through slicing and merging.