Simple Vector Tiles

Create vector tiles with Natural Earth data.

• Convert shapefile to geojson with GDAL ogr2ogr
• Create and merge mbtiles with tippecanoe

Map Demo

How To Use

With docker

You need Docker.

Install Docker.

Execute make to create tiles

make

Without docker

You need GDAL and tippecanoe

$ gdalinfo --version
GDAL 3.0.4, released 2020/01/28

$ tippecanoe --version
tippecanoe v1.36.0

Execute make to create tiles

make -f create-tiles.mk

Map example

make run-example

References

• Natural Earth Data
• GDAL
• mapbox/tippecanoe
• Mapbox GL JS - Style Specification
• Github Actions
• thttpd
• sed, a stream editor