Encoding data for generating raster tiles representing a geographic area

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium soring computer program instructions for providing a structured data stream comprising a plurality of structured geospatial data tiles, the computer-program instructions, when executed by one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to:

• access geospatial data from one or more network systems;
• encode the geospatial data into structured geospatial data tiles by:
• parsing the geospatial data into a plurality of data types;
• for each data type of the plurality of data types, generating one or more data bands of a plurality of data bands, each data band comprising the parsed geospatial data corresponding to the data type,
• generate data pixels for each data band of the plurality of data bands, each data pixel of a plurality of data pixels comprising a defined number of bits of the parsed geospatial data,
• generating a plurality of data blocks, each data block of the plurality of data blocks comprising data pixels of one or more of the data bands of the plurality of data bands, and
• generating a plurality of structured geospatial data tiles, each structured geospatial data tile of the plurality of structured geospatial data tiles comprising one or more of the data blocks and a header identifying a location of each data pixel for each data type in the one or data blocks in the structured geospatial data tile;
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• provide the plurality of structured geospatial data tiles to a client device as a structured data stream;
• wherein the client device comprises a processing unit configured to generate visualizations of geospatial data tiles using the defined number of bits of the data pixels.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium soring computer program instructions for providing a structured data stream comprising a plurality of structured geospatial data tiles, the computer-program instructions, when executed by one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to:
• access geospatial data from one or more network systems;
• encode the geospatial data into structured geospatial data tiles by:
• parsing the geospatial data into a plurality of data types;
• for each data type of the plurality of data types, generating one or more data bands of a plurality of data bands, each data band comprising the parsed geospatial data corresponding to the data type,
• generate data pixels for each data band of the plurality of data bands, each data pixel of a plurality of data pixels comprising a defined number of bits of the parsed geospatial data,
• generating a plurality of data blocks, each data block of the plurality of data blocks comprising data pixels of one or more of the data bands of the plurality of data bands, and
• generating a plurality of structured geospatial data tiles, each structured geospatial data tile of the plurality of structured geospatial data tiles comprising one or more of the data blocks and a header identifying a location of each data pixel for each data type in the one or data blocks in the structured geospatial data tile;
• and
• provide the plurality of structured geospatial data tiles to a client device as a structured data stream;
• wherein the client device comprises a processing unit configured to generate visualizations of geospatial data tiles using the defined number of bits of the data pixels.