# Elasticsearch or Kibana servers / APIs as Vector tile server
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-or-kibana-servers-apis-as-vector-tile-server/264017
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-or-kibana-servers-apis-as-vector-tile-server/264017 "2021-02-11T12:43:12Z")
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### Author:  [@Florin\_Virdol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Florin_Virdol)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-or-kibana-servers-apis-as-vector-tile-server/264017/1 "2021-02-11T12:43:12Z")
Hello,
As a bit of context, for my web app, on the Angular frontend, on top of Google Maps APIs, i'm using Uber's deck.gl library for better rendering geo-spatial data (GeoJson layers and MVT layers).
For the deck.gl MVT layers I was using PostgreSQL PostGIS as Vector tile server.
Now, I migrated away from PostGIS and I'm storing the geo-spatial data (collection of shapes and points) in ElasticSearch for faster indexing and querying.
I was wondering if with this initiative or in the near future (in a roadmap), will I able to use [ElasticSearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/58696) or Kibana as a Vector tile server in order to get geo-spatial data (normal for shapes and clustered for points) only for the current map viewport (based on zoom and pan / drag on the map) and in the Mapbox .mvt / pbf formats?
I saw you guys did a wonderful job of implementing something similar [here](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/58519) into Kibana Maps (serving as Vector Tiles geo-spatial data from ElasticSearch: normal shapes and clustered points).
Until any ElasticSearch implementation, do you expose and can I use any APIs from Kibana?
I'm looking forward to your response!
Thank you very much!
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### Author:  [@giladgal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/giladgal)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-or-kibana-servers-apis-as-vector-tile-server/264017/2 "2021-02-11T15:58:52Z")
Hello Florin,
We are currently working on a prototype to do what you describe within Elasticsearch. We will update as we progress. It’s definitely something we are considering for our future roadmap.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-or-kibana-servers-apis-as-vector-tile-server/264017/3 "2021-03-11T15:59:23Z")
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