mapbox-tile-copy

A shortcut from local geodata files to tiles on S3

Configuration

You’ll be writing to S3, and so you’ll need to make sure that your shell environment is configured with appropriate credentials.

Usage

$ mapbox-tile-copy <file> <s3 url template>

The file extension used on <s3 url template> will determine the format of raster tiles from gdal sources (tif, vrt). Accepted formats/extensions are webpjpgjpegpng. Default compression options are from mapnik. If no extension is given, format will default to webp or can be overridden with the argument --format=jpeg.

By default, retina (512x512) tiles are created. Pass the argument --retina=false to create non-retina (256x256) tiles for raster tiles from gdal sources.

Examples:

Copy tiles from an mbtiles file to a folder in my-bucket: sh $ mapbox-tile-copy ~/data/my-tiles.mbtiles s3://my-bucket/folder/mbtiles/{z}/{x}/{y}

Convert a GeoJSON file into vector tiles: sh $ mapbox-tile-copy ~/data/my-data.geojson s3://my-bucket/folder/geojson/{z}/{x}/{y}

Copy tiles from one S3 location to another via tilejson describing the source: sh $ mapbox-tile-copy ~/data/online-data.tilejson s3://my-bucket/folder/tilejson/{z}/{x}/{y}

Perform a part of a copy operation. Useful for parallel processing a large file: sh $ mapbox-tile-copy ~/data/my-tiles.mbtiles s3://my-bucket/parallel/{z}/{x}/{y} --part 2 --parts 12

Render image tiles from vector tiles, using custom fonts from a location on your computer: sh $ MapboxTileCopyFonts=/path/to/font/dir mapbox-tile-copy ~/style.tm2z s3://my-bucket/pngs/{z}/{x}/{y}

Supported file types

• .mbtiles
• .tilejson
• .tm2z
• .kml
• .geojson
• .gpx
• .csv
• .shp
• .tif
• .vrt
• serialtiles

Running tests

Tests involve copying files to S3. You can bring your own bucket by specifying a TestBucket environment variable. sh $ TestBucket=my-bucket npm test

If you don’t specify a bucket, it will attempt to write to a private Mapbox bucket, and will fail if your environment is not configured with appropriate credentials.

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