Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by brendan8229 » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 6:26 PM UTC

Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler
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Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by tony_cannistra » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 6:48 PM UTC

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

Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by brendan8229 » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 7:15 PM UTC

tony_cannistra wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by acdanger » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 8:24 PM UTC

tony_cannistra wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by tony_cannistra » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

brendan8229 wrote: post #3

tony_cannistra wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by brendan8229 » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 8:54 PM UTC

tony_cannistra wrote: post #5

brendan8229 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

True. And otherwise a tool like this is very handy.

Re: Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler

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Post by bdon » Wed, Jun 07, 2023, 10:03 PM UTC

acdanger wrote: post #4

tony_cannistra wrote: post #2

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

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.

Two commands!

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

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