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A command line tool for building vector tilesets, for web maps, primarily from GeoJSON data.

Tippecanoe [GitHub] is a command line tool from Mapbox for building vector tilesets, for web maps, primarily from GeoJSON data.

This tag, then, is for questions pertaining to usage of Tippecanoe itself, or tilesets produced with it.

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Tippecanoe generated pbf stored on s3 visualised on mapbox-gl

I am working on this project where I need to generate protobuf files with tippecanoe, store them on an s3 bucket and visualise it using mapbox-gl. I generate the vector tiles using the -e option to write to a folder of my choice, and also with…
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tippecanoe keeps dropping polygons at mid level zooms

Is there anyway to stop tippecanoe from dropping polygons at low/mid level zooms while keeping within the 500kb per tile size limit of mapbox uploads for an mbtiles file? We are getting a lot of polygons being dropped. We are not sure what flags to…
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LeafletJS & Protomaps: Read a PMTiles file generated with tippecanoe latest (v2.11.0)

We use leafletJS with ProtonmapsJS for read vector tiles generated with ogr2ogr and tippecanoe. tippecanoe is available in 2 github version : the old mapbox version : with, we can read and find attributes in the pmtiles file When we use the old…
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Mbtiles generation with tippecanoe on a mixed geojson feature file

I have a bunch of geojson files that I want to use to create a .mbtiles file, these geojson files were made by using ogr2ogr on a .osm.pbf file. Though these files seemed to have mixed features within them, e.g. the linestring.geojson file has…
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Custom vector tiles does not match with tiles made from geojson source in mapbox

I am trying to switch my current map-based application from geojson type source to vector tile source. As a proof of concept, I did a small experiment to visually compare the features drawn from geojson source vs vector source. Features drawn from…
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tippecanoe: don't drop any points?

I have a GeoJSON file with about 30,000 points in. I would like to use tippecanoe to turn this into a Mapbox tileset (an mbtiles file). I would like to drop none of the points, and for the tileset only to be available between zoom levels 10 and 15.…
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How to create two layered MbTiles for large featured files using Tippecanoe?

My requirement is to process 3+ millions of geojson data(Polygon feature) and visualize it on Map in a way that it should show Polygons on the highest zoom level(individual entity) and clusters(in form of bubbles/circles may be) on the lower zoom…
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Vector tileset not accurate at lower zoom levels

I am creating a web map that will allow users to click on a polygon and have information about the polygon displayed (the polygon also gets highlighted). I have 4000+ polygons displayed on the map. The issue is when a polygon is clicked, the map is…
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Tippecanone & Mapbox - loosing details in a specific zoom level

I render tiles for mapbox with tippecanone. I want to use it to represent buildings. Unfortunately, the buildings lose the structure at zoom level 14 in Mapbox. I have already tried various options with tippecaone. Neither did it. Info: Geojson…
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MapBox style hides points at low zoom levels

I have a geojson file of thousands of points (each point is a Feature in a big FeatureCollection) and I create a tileset with tippecanoe: tippecanoe -o /home/ubuntu/positions.mbtiles -Z 0 -z 14 /home/ubuntu/positions.json.gz --force Whatever…
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Merging overlapping GeoJSON LineStrings (Tippecanoe) and add visualization

I would like to merge overlapping GeoJSON LineStrings and visually style merged LineString. I have a database of GeoJSON LineStrings which represent routes people drove. I would like to visualize routes which people drive most frequent with…
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Why is Tippecanoe conversion of geojson file to pbf vector tiles resulting in incorrect lat/long placement?

I'm trying to generate pbf vector tiles from json data using tippecanoe. Ultimately will be served up for use in OpenLayers but had no success there so tried testing the tiles in QGIS. When I view any of them (in QGIS) instead of being in the…
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How to get GDAL/ogr2ogr to output GeoJSON as feature-per-line instead of a formatted FeatureCollection?

I'm trying to convert some Very Big Shapefiles into GeoJSON so that I can run them through tippecanoe and create a .mbtiles to upload to Mapbox Studio for hosting and styling. I can use ogr2ogr to create my GeoJSON file just fine, however it outputs…
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How to load large geojson file into mapbox?

I have a large geoJson file (almost 700MB) and I need to load it in my map using mapbox and openmaptiles server. I need to have an external file, so I can't use Mapbox Studio for uploading and converting the data. I can't use geojson2mvt since the…
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What are the consequences of using other geojson projections while creating vector tiles using tippecannoe?

I have written my own vector tiles service based on vt-pbf, which queries a really large source of geojsons which specify different kinds of projections to be used. While using tippecanoe tool I am getting warnings like Warning: GeoJSON specified…
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