Installing the Vector Tiles Extension

  1. From the website download page, locate your release, and download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2025.1/extensions/geoserver-2025.1-vectortiles-plugin.zip

    Warning

    Make sure to match the version of the extension to the version of GeoServer.

  2. 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

  1. 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

    ../../_images/vectortiles_tileformats.png

    Vector tiles tile formats

    If you don’t see these options, the extension did not install correctly.