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awesome-vector-tiles

Awesome implementations of the Mapbox Vector Tile specification
https://github.com/mapbox/awesome-vector-tiles

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  • Clients

      • hoverboard - Render vector tiles on canvas with Leaflet 0.7.x (supports GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) [:warning:](https://github.com/madd512/hoverboard/issues/13#issuecomment-171406102) no longer maintained
      • Leaflet.VectorGrid - Display gridded vector data (sliced GeoJSON, TopoJSON or Mapbox Vector Tiles) in Leaflet 1.0.0
      • Mapbox GL Native - C++/OpenGL vector maps library with native SDKs for Android, iOS, Node.js, macOS, and Qt
      • OpenLayers - JavaScript vector & raster library.
      • WhirlyGlobe/Maply - Objective C code that is able to read and render vector tiles(and style with mapnik xml) on iOS devices.
      • react-native-mapbox-gl - Render Mapbox GL maps from React applications
      • ArcGIS API for JavaScript - Draw vector tile layers as part of your web map. Rendering done via `mapbox-gl-js` integration.
      • Azure Maps Web SDK - Render vector tile layers on an interactive web map control using JavaScript or TypeScript.
      • deckGl - WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets
      • react-native-mapbox-gl - Render Mapbox GL maps from React applications
      • Mapbox GL JS - JavaScript/WebGL vector maps library.
      • MapLibre GL - Is a community led fork derived from Mapbox GL JS prior to their switch to a non-OSS license.
      • Leaflet.MapboxVectorTile
      • CARTO Mobile SDK - C++ maps library focused on offline features, for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Xamarin with bindings for Java, Objective-C and C#. Based on [Nutiteq Maps SDK](https://developer.nutiteq.com), but open source and uses CartoCSS.
      • Mapzen Tangram - JavaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL, supports MVT, GeoJSON, TopoJSON
      • Mapzen Tangram-es - C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps using OpenGL ES 2 with custom styling and interactions
      • mapbox-gl-leaflet - Create Mapbox GL layers in Leaflet
      • hoverboard - Render vector tiles on canvas with Leaflet 0.7.x (supports GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) [:warning:](https://github.com/madd512/hoverboard/issues/13#issuecomment-171406102) no longer maintained
      • mapscii - A Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals
      • Unofficial Mapbox GL Native bindings for Qt QML - Qt QML bindings for Qt 5.6 and higher.
      • Mapbox-vector-tiles-basic-js-renderer - A fork of mapbox-gl-js giving you full control over rendering of specific tiles, also provides vector tile overlay for google maps.
      • QtPBFImagePlugin - Qt image plugin for displaying Mapbox vector tiles.
      • AliFlux VectorTileRenderer - A highly customizable vector tile renderer built using C# for .Net platform. Comes with bindings for Mapsui and Gmap.Net components.
      • Vector Tiles Google Maps - Render vector tile layers on Google Maps.
      • iTowns - Three.js based JavaScript library for visualizing 2D vector, raster and 3D geospatial data.

    • Applications / Command line tools

      • Mapbox Studio - Web design studio for creating and styling vector tiles.
      • Mapbox Studio Classic - Desktop design studio for both creating vector tiles from raw geodata and for rendering them on-the-fly into image tiles. Internally uses `tilelive.js` modules to handle vector tiles (see `tilelive-bridge` and `tilelive-vector`) :warning: use [Mapbox Studio](https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio/) instead.
      • ArcGIS Pro - Generate vector tiles from maps authored in ArcGIS Pro or imported from ArcMap.
      • QGIS - supports vector tiles as a new map layer type since 3.14 release. It reads and displays styled vector tiles, adds styling GUI and writing (available as a processing toolbox algorithm).
      • Mapbox MVT Chrome Extension - Google Chrome extension that parses loaded vector tiles on the fly, shows short statistics and shows each vector tile as GeoJSON
      • QGIS - supports vector tiles as a new map layer type since 3.14 release. It reads and displays styled vector tiles, adds styling GUI and writing (available as a processing toolbox algorithm).

  • CLI Utilities

    • Applications / Command line tools

      • OGR MVT - The GDAL/OGR MVT and MBTILES drivers can be used to read and write vector tiles, respectively as tileset on the filesystem or in a mbtiles container (GDAL >= 2.3.0)
      • Datamaps - vector` command. :warning: no longer maintained, use tippecanoe instead

      • tileinfo - Display TileJSON info about an mbtiles file.
      • mbview - Watch MBTiles in your localhost. View tiles in a basic Mapbox GL JS webapp locally
      • tippecanoe - Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
      • tilemaker - Command line tool to produce vector tiles directly from an .osm.pbf extract without an intermediate database.
      • mapbox-filter - Filter MBTiles according to Mapbox GL JS styles, shrink MBTiles directly, serve locally over http, publish to S3-compatibile storage
      • vector-tiles-producer
      • vt-geojson - decodes vector tiles to GeoJSON FeatureCollections
      • tl - An alternate command line interface to tilelive
      • tileshrink - Reduce the layer extent and simplify the resulting geometries of all vector tiles in an MBTiles
      • tiler @GeoVation - Command line tool for converting GeoJSON, Shapefiles or PostGIS layer to raw Vector Tiles (or MBTiles)
      • geojson2mvt - npm package for building a static vector tile tree for given xyz bounds from a geojson file (uses [geojson-vt](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-vt))
      • tiler @thomersch - Command line tool to convert GeoJSON to Vector Tiles (written in Go language).

  • Mapbox GL JS Plugins

    • Applications / Command line tools

      • gl-draw - Adds support for drawing and editing features on Mapbox GL JS maps

  • Servers

    • Applications / Command line tools

      • ArcGIS Online - Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
      • GeoServer - java web application for sharing and editing geospatial data. [Vector tile extension](https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/extensions/vectortiles/index.html) available since GeoServer 2.11.
      • martin - is a PostGIS vector tiles server suitable for large databases.
      • Portal for ArcGIS - Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
      • SpatialServer (PGRestAPI) - A multi-purpose GeoSpatial NodeJS web server created at [SpatialDev](http://spatialdev.com) that not only serves MBTiles stuffed with vector tiles, it can also cut vector tiles on the fly from a PostGIS database. [:warning:](https://github.com/spatialdev/PGRestAPI/issues/142#issuecomment-231132808) No longer maintained.
      • Utilery
      • Vallaris Maps - Mapping Platforms to storage process and services GIS Data. Provide DataService API and Maps API (Vector Tiles, WMS, WMTS) Compilance in OGC API Standards.

      • MapServer - Open Source platform, written in C, for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. MVT output available since version 7.2
      • OpenMapTiles - Set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK.
      • Tyler - An Open Source tiling server maintaining a Vector Tile storage providing a REST interface.

  • Low-level utilities

  • Articles

  • Applications / Command line tools

    • Mapbox Studio Classic - Desktop design studio for both creating vector tiles from raw geodata and for rendering them on-the-fly into image tiles. Internally uses `tilelive.js` modules to handle vector tiles (see `tilelive-bridge` and `tilelive-vector`) :warning: use [Mapbox Studio](https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-studio/) instead.
    • kosmtik - Design maps with CartoCSS and Mapnik.
    • MVT Styler - map style editor for vector tiles.
    • QGIS Vector Tiles Reader - QGIS Python plugin which reads Mapbox Vector Tiles from local MBTiles file or remote
    • mapbox-gl-inspect - Plugin for Mapbox GL JS to view the view and inspect VT features.
    • Fresco - is an open source Mapbox Vector Tile Style editor.
    • Baremaps - An open source pipeline for producing Mapbox vector tiles from OpenStreetMap with Postgis and Java.
    • QGIS - supports vector tiles as a new map layer type since 3.14 release. It reads and displays styled vector tiles, adds styling GUI and writing (available as a processing toolbox algorithm).

  • Parsers & Generators

    • mapbox-vector-tile - vector-tile/issues/42) Only support V1 Tile spec and not V2, no longer maintained
    • dart-vector-tile - A simple Dart package to encode & decode Mapbox Vector Tile.
    • vector-tile-js - Parses vector tiles with JavaScript.
    • mapnik-vector-tile - C++ vector tile read/write implementation on top of Mapnik.
    • mbtiles-cpp - C++ library for decoding of mbtiles and vector data into function callbacks.
    • vector-tile-py - Python tool to convert a Mapnik vector tile to GeoJSON
    • node-mapnik - Node.js API for vector tiles which depends on `mapnik-vector-tile`
    • vector-tile-cs - Parses vector tiles with C# (native C# implementation, no dependencies).
    • mapbox-vector-tile-cs - Parses vector tiles with C# (uses protobuf-net).
    • tilelive-vector - Implements [Tilelive API](https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive.js/blob/master/API.md) for reading vector tiles and rendering to image tiles in Node.js.
    • tilelive-bridge - Implements [Tilelive API](https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive.js/blob/master/API.md) for creating vector tiles from traditional Mapnik datasources in Node.js.
    • mapbox-vector-tile - vector-tile/issues/42) Only support V1 Tile spec and not V2, no longer maintained
    • geojson-vt - Slice GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly in the browser.
    • geojson2vt - Python port of [geojson-vt](https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-vt) to convert GeoJSON into vector tiles.
    • vt2pbf - Python port of [vt-pbf](https://github.com/mapbox/vt-pbf) encode vector tiles into pbf.
    • java-vector-tile - A java encoder and decoder for vector tiles.
    • mapbox-vector-tile-java - Encode and decode v2.1 Mapbox Vector Tiles. Convert JTS Geometry to and from MVT features, including simple user data support. Utility functions for converting world coordinates to MVT coordinates and clipping to a tile envelope.
    • cached-vector-tile - An alternative implementation of the vector-tile-js interface, backed by plain JS objects/arrays rather than parsed-on-demand protobuf data. Trades away memory efficiency for faster feature.loadGeometry() calls.
    • tilegrinder - A helper library for applying a data altering function on each vector tile in an MBTiles, using the native protobuf wrapper for de- and encoding, recompressing the results and storing them either in an MBTiles or as single files.
    • SwiftVectorTiles - A Swift encoder for vector tiles according to the Mapbox vector tile spec.
    • orb - A Go geometry library with mvt <-> geojson support.
    • dart-vector-tile - A simple Dart package to encode & decode Mapbox Vector Tile.
    • php-vector-tile-data-provider - A Composer library for encoding arbitrary [OpenGIS](https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfa) data (as read from GeoJSON/WKT/WKB or populated manually) to MVT. Designed as a base dependency for custom tile server ready for frequent updates on high RPS. Best fit for real-time weather or traffic data visualization.
Programming Languages
JavaScript 22 C++ 9 Python 7 C# 3 CoffeeScript 2 Java 2 Dart 2 Haskell 1 EJS 1 C 1
Categories
Clients 31 Parsers & Generators 23 CLI Utilities 14 Servers 10 Applications / Command line tools 8 License 4 Articles 4 Mapbox GL JS Plugins 1 Low-level utilities 1
Sub Categories
Applications / Command line tools 20
Keywords
vector-tiles 12 openstreetmap 5 mbtiles 5 map 5 geojson 4 mapbox-vector-tile 4 mapbox 4 qt 3 opengl-es 3 nodejs 3 mapbox-gl 3 java 3 ios 3 android 3 tangram 2 webgl 2 raster-tiles 2 linux 2 vector-tile-to-geojson 2 vector-tile-parser 2 mapzen 2 map-renderer 2 gis 2 vector-tile 2 geojson-format 2 dart-vector-tile 2 leaflet 2 c-plus-plus 2 macos 2 maps 2 javascript 2 objective-c 2 pbf 2 mvt 2 typescript 1 maplibre-gl-js 1 maplibre-gl 1 maplibre 1 in-scope 1 vt-pbf 1 tileserver-gl 1 wkt 1 wkb 1 geospatial 1 geo 1 protobuf-vector-tiles 1 topojson 1 swift 1 2d 1 protobuf 1