3.4 Mapbox

Mapbox Source

• WebP compression changes for the Mapbox iOS SDK for rendering raster & vector map data — https://github.com/roblabs/mapbox-gl-native
• Tippecanoe, converting to Mapbox Vector Tiles

Mapbox — storage, tools and specs

• Mobile SDK for iOS & Android
• mapbox.com/studio — storing tiles and Styling
• geobuf - A compact binary encoding for geographic data., https://github.com/mapbox/geobuf
• mason — build tool chain for Mobile SDK
• tippecanoe — GeoJSON to Vector Tiles
  • https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
  • tile-join — Joining Vector MBTiles
• Command Line Cartography (GeoJSON merge, join)
• Specifications
  • Mapbox Style Spec
  • MBTiles spec

tippecanoe

Tippecanoe creates vector tilesets from large GeoJSON feature collections. The output is an MBTiles file that can be uploaded to Mapbox.

Prebuilt binaries exist for macOS and

• uses GDAL tool set for converting to GeoJSON
• tippecanoe for converting to MBTiles & joining data

tile-join

Tile-join is a tool for copying and merging vector mbtiles files and for joining new attributes from a CSV file to existing features in them.

Tippecanoe has a join tool called tile-join which takes care of joining CSV to GeoJSON.

macOS

Using brew

brew install tippecanoe

Ubuntu

On Ubuntu it will usually be easiest to build from the source repository. For details and build documentation, please see https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe#installation.

For convenience, the build steps are summarized here.

git clone git@github.com:mapbox/tippecanoe.git
cd tippecanoe
make -j
make install

Test to verify install

tippecanoe -v

# sample response, the version number could be different
# tippecanoe v1.31.0

tile-join

# sample response
# Usage: tile-join [-f] [-i] [-pk] [-pC] [-c joins.csv] [-x exclude ...] -o new.mbtiles source.mbtiles ...