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25 points by brendan8229 3 years ago · 6 comments

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tony_cannistra 3 years ago

Hm. Not totally sure why someone would pay for this - there are lots of readily-available open-source tools that can do this easily. GDAL/OGR[0] and Tippecanoe [1] come to mind. Maybe I'm missing a less-technical audience?

0: https://gdal.org/ 1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

  • brendan8229OP 3 years ago

    Right. The service allows one to make tiles without any knowledge of gdal or tippecanoe. The service also hosts the tiles and makes them available.

    • tony_cannistra 3 years ago

      right but, that's pretty straightforward if you've got some relatively basic CLI comfort and an account with a cloud provider...

  • acdanger 3 years ago

    It’s possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles, convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a three commands.

    • bdon 3 years ago

      Two commands!

      ogr2ogr -f GeoJSONSeq /vsistdout/ dataset.shp | tippecanoe -o dataset.pmtiles

      aws s3 cp dataset.pmtiles s3://bucket/output.pmtiles

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