This repository contains code and data for an experimental evaluation comparing the MLT format to the state-of-the-art vector tile format Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) across three different categories:

• Encoding & Compression Performance: the size of the formats, both encoded and compressed
• Decoding (Transcoding) Performance: the performance of decoding the encoded formats into their respective in-memory representations
• Data Access Performance: data access micro-benchmarks concerning the performance of common data access patterns on in-memory representations im map rendering workflows such as applying filtering operations

To run the encoding and compression benchmarks navigate to the Java project.

To run the decoding and filtering benchmarks navigate to the TypeScript project.