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This tool is an alternative to Mapbox Studio and 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) using some script
• fine tune zoom levels or other parameters of vector tiles
• overcome Mapbox Studio upload limits

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

Data requirements

• Input file needs to be in CSV format
• Geometry needs to be in WKT format
• Geometry needs to be in WGS84 coordinate system

Typically if you have your geodata in Shapefile format, you can transform it with your favorite GIS tool or you can use ogr2ogr utility with following command:

ogr2ogr -f "CSV" countries_wkt.csv countries.shp -lco GEOMETRY=AS_WKT -t_srs EPSG:4326

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