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Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

• tony_cannistra 3y 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/ https://gdal.org/ 1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
  • brendan8229 3y 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 3y ago
      right but, that's pretty straightforward if you've got some relatively basic CLI comfort and an account with a cloud provider...
      • brendan8229 3y ago
        True. And otherwise a tool like this is very handy.
  • acdanger 3y 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 3y ago
      Two commands! ogr2ogr -f GeoJSONSeq /vsistdout/ dataset.shp | tippecanoe -o dataset.pmtiles aws s3 cp dataset.pmtiles s3://bucket/output.pmtiles