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This tool lets you easily create or update vector tilesets on Mapbox from your CSV files using command line. It can be especially handy if you need to periodically update some vector tileset (e.g. every day updates). It is alternative for Mapbox Studio where you can do almost same things manually. Under the hood the tool is using Mapbox Python API, ogr2ogr and tippecanoe utilites. Just pass your CSV file with WKT geometries, specify some parameters and you are done. 

Installation

MapboxUtils is distributed as a Docker image so you need to have Docker platform installed. You can get Docker here. 

MapboxUtils is publicly available on Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/clevermaps/mapbox-utils

Use following command to get the image:

docker pull clevermaps/mapbox-utils:latest

Available parameters

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--inputfile /workdir/countries_wkt.csv

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--geomcolumn wkt

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--tilesetmapid cleveranalytics.14j1fhp2

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--tilesetname countries_wkt-02ssft

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--layername countries_wkt

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--minzoom 5

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--maxzoom 15

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fields

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--fields "id:integer;name:string"

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--mbtiles_params "drop-fraction-as-needed extend-zooms-if-still-dropping"

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--mapboxtoken abcdefgah1234

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Running MapboxUtils

Create a new tileset without specifying tilesetname or layername

docker run -t -v /home/user/clevermaps/mapbox-utils:/workdir clevermaps/mapbox-utils:latest --inputfile /workdir/countries_wkt.csv --geomcolumn wkt --minzoom 5 --maxzoom 15 --fields "id:integer;name:string" --mapboxtoken abcdefgah1234

Create a new tileset and specify tilesetname and layername

docker run -t -v /home/user/clevermaps/mapbox-utils:/workdir clevermaps/mapbox-utils:latest --inputfile /workdir/countries_wkt.csv --geomcolumn wkt --minzoom 5 --maxzoom 15 --fields "id:integer;name:string" --mapboxtoken abcdefgah1234 --tilesetname countries_wkt --layername countries_wkt

Update existing tileset