[Tile-serving] [mod_tile] UTFGrid support for mod_tile (#58)

[Mikel Maron]

Trying to get mod_tile producing UTF8Grids. Wondering if anyone else has looked at this. Apparently the fix would be in mapnik itself. Some notes on this from @springmeyer below.

The reason renderd does not support tile end points for interactivity/grids is that Mapnik support is partially in C++ and partially in the bindings (python or JavaScript). It ended up this way because to leverage the json support in each of those languages and not implement the full json encoding for utf8grids in C++. But in doing so, renderd needs to implement that json encoding on its own, which has not happened yet and likely shouldn't since ideally Mapnik would just do this in C++ to save the duplicative work.

The grid_renderer builds up an image like array of feature ids. Then that needs to be turned into json. The code to do it is is already in c++ actually but writes to a c++ boost python object. Instead it would need to write to a string that could be parseable as json. The bindings code is mapnik/bindings/python/python_grid_utils.hpp. We don't actually need a json encoder and the intermediate objects it would likely require. 

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