Dear Evan,

Great question! However this is a big topic and really depends on the tiles in question.

We are currently looking at archiving various Ordnance Survey web map tiles adding Marc metadata and could also use some input.

There are several standards for serving web map tiles:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/132242/what-are-the-differences-between-tms-xyz-wmts


Some of these have fixed directory/file structures that specify geographical position and zoom level which can be used to provide bounding box metadata. Conversion to a single standard might be necessary for long-term preservation of a range of datasets.

Vector and raster tiles will probably also have different archiving considerations.

I would be happy to discuss this with you further, do please send me an email.

Best,

Gethin

Dr Gethin Rees
Lead Curator, Digital Mapping
British Library
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Date:    Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:22:39 +0000
From:    "Thornberry, Evan" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Archiving web map tiles

Hi all,

I’m wondering if anyone here knows of or is involved with projects to archive web map tiles (e.g. OpenStreetMap tiles).

If someone wanted to look at the cartographic style history of OpenStreetMap, they would need access to map tiles at specific zoom levels over an area for a specific range or period of time. The database which OSM uses to render these tiles is available and can be searched historically, but I’m more interested in projects that attempt to archive the raster tiles. Specifically how they were packaged, organized, and given metadata.

Thanks in advance for any help!

+Evan

Evan Thornberry
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