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Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-01-04 · latest 2024-07-20

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  1. …frontend, but that should be fine (if not, look into clustering the data at further zoom levels). https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
    comment by et-al · 2024-07-20 · in I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
  2. …just a format which allows you to read tiles out of a single file with HTTP range requests. [0] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
    comment by winbat · 2023-03-10 · in Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
  3. …options are creating vector tiles of your own data and merging or displaying them in the renderer ( https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe is a great tool to do this from GeoJSON) but I don't have much to support this yet.
    comment by bdon · 2021-04-24 · in A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
  4. At least for simple GeoJSON you can use tippecanoe ( https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe ) with --output-to-directory to get individual .pbf tiles. Most rendering clients will have some scheme where you can provide a root url and then the…
    comment by alohec · 2021-04-23 · in A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
  5. You can use tippecanoe ( https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe ) with the --output-to-directory flag to output the individual .pbf tiles instead of a single MBTiles file. These tiles can then be hosted on something like s3 and your…
    comment by alohec · 2021-04-23 · in A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
  6. Thanks. My major public project for map utilities has been Tippecanoe, https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
    comment by enf · 2020-12-14 · in If-then-else had to be invented
  7. tippecanoe (also from mapbox) is fantastic software for vector tile generation. https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
    comment by bentaber · 2020-07-03 · in Openstreetmap, a global map for worldwide insight
  8. …it in a severless environment which scales well but would get crazy expensive for any high use. [1] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
    comment by lbutler · 2019-10-06 · in Tools I Recommend for Building Geospatial Web Applications
  9. …author) built a tool to add dots to maps at scale. To say it's powerful would be an understatement https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe http://geohipster.com/2017/08/07/eric-fischer-may-yet-object...
    comment by mtmail · 2019-07-27 · in Mapped: Where locals and tourists take pictures in 136 cities (2010-2013)
  10. For geographic data https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe (examples https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe/blob/master/MADE_WITH.m... ), if I had enough time to learn a new one http://kepler.gl/ For bar charts http://www.chartjs.org/ and when…
    comment by mtmail · 2018-10-02 · in Ask HN: What is your preferred data visualization library and why?
  11. I'm not. I usually use Tippecanoe [ https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe ] to create vector tiles with my data on, and then pick a set of raster tiles from here [ http://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ ] (the Stamen…
    comment by GlennS · 2018-01-04 · in Mapzen Shutdown