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.
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| name | mandatory | example | description |
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| input_pkey_column | yes | input_pkey_column: id | Name of the primary key column |
| input_geom_column | yes | input_geom_column: wkt | name Name of geometry column |
| tileset_map_id | no | tileset_map_id: cleveranalytics.14j1fhp2 | Mapbox tilesetmapid. If not specified than random value is generated by Mapbox. Specify in case of updating an existing tileset. |
| tileset_name | no | tileset_name: countries_wkt-02ssft | Mapbox tilesetname. If not than specified than tilesetname is generated as combination of input file name and random hash. Specify in case of updating an existing tileset or if you need your own tilesetname. |
| layer_name | no | layer_name: countries_wkt | Mapbox layername. If not specified than same value as tilesetname is used. Specify in case of updating an existing tileset or if you need your own layername. |
| zoom_min | no | zoom_min: 5 | Minimal zoom of the tileset |
| zoom_max | no | zoom_max: 10 | Maximal zoom of the tileset. Maximum allowed value is 10. |
| mbtiles_params | no | mbtiles: ["drop-densest-as-needed", "extend-zooms-if-still-dropping"] | Parameters of MBTiles generation internally used by tippecanoe. Parameters can be found here https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe |
| #mapboxtoken | yes | #mapboxtoken: abcdefgah1234 | Your Mapbox account token. Token needs to have following priviliges: TILESETS:WRITE, TILESETS:READ, TILESETS:LIST, UPLOADS:READ, UPLOADS:WRITE. Check https://docs.mapbox.com/help/how-mapbox-works/access-tokens/ for more information. |
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Updating an existing vector tileset with optional mbtiles paramaters
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{
"input_pkey_column": "id",
"input_geom_column": "polygon",
"tileset_name": "restaurants_time_zones-d0c283".
"tileset_map_id": "cleveranalytics.d0c283",
"#mapbox_token": "your mapbox token",
"zoom_min": "4",
"zoom_max": "10",
"mbtiles_params": [
"drop-densest-as-needed",
"extend-zooms-if-still-dropping"
]
}
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