awesome-vector-tiles

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

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Clients
- - Azure Maps Web SDK - Render vector tile layers on an interactive web map control using JavaScript or TypeScript.
  - Mapzen Tangram-es - C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps using OpenGL ES 2 with custom styling and interactions
  - react-native-mapbox-gl - Render Mapbox GL maps from React applications
  - 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.
  - 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GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) [:warning:](https://github.com/madd512/hoverboard/issues/13#issuecomment-171406102) no longer maintained
  - QtPBFImagePlugin - Qt image plugin for displaying Mapbox vector tiles.
  - OpenLayers - JavaScript vector & raster library.
  - 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.
  - 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GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) [:warning:](https://github.com/madd512/hoverboard/issues/13#issuecomment-171406102) no longer maintained
  - WhirlyGlobe/Maply - Objective C code that is able to read and render vector tiles(and style with mapnik xml) on iOS devices.
  - Mapbox GL JS - JavaScript/WebGL vector maps library.
  - Leaflet.VectorGrid - Display gridded vector data (sliced GeoJSON, TopoJSON or Mapbox Vector Tiles) in Leaflet 1.0.0
  - mapscii - A Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals
  - Mapbox GL Native - C++/OpenGL vector maps library with native SDKs for Android, iOS, Node.js, macOS, and Qt
  - MapLibre GL - Is a community led fork derived from Mapbox GL JS prior to their switch to a non-OSS license.
  - Leaflet.MapboxVectorTile
  - Mapzen Tangram - JavaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL, supports MVT, GeoJSON, TopoJSON
  - 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.
  - deckGl - WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets
  - 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.
  - ArcGIS Pro - Generate vector tiles from maps authored in ArcGIS Pro or imported from ArcMap.
  - 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
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)
- - 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.
  - 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))
  - mbview - Watch MBTiles in your localhost. View tiles in a basic Mapbox GL JS webapp locally
  - 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)
  - tiler @thomersch - Command line tool to convert GeoJSON to Vector Tiles (written in Go language).
  - MBUtil - Import and export MBTiles to disk :warning: no longer maintained
  - vt2geojson
  - python-vt2geojson - Command line tool and Python package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON.
  - vt2geojson - Command line tool and npm package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON.
  - tileinfo - Display TileJSON info about an mbtiles file.
  - 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)
  - Vtiles - All in One Vector Tiles Utilities.
  - XYZ - Simple tool to procedurally prime XYZ tile caches to a given zoom level.
  - Planetiler - Command-line Java program to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data in a few hours.
  - sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles - Easily generate planet-scale vector tilesets on low memory / low cpu count devices.
Servers
- Applications / Command line tools
  - ArcGIS Online - Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
  - Portal for ArcGIS - Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
  - 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.
- - Tegola - is a vector tile server delivering Mapbox Vector Tiles with support for PostGIS and GeoPackage data providers.
  - tessera - Supports serving and rendering vector tiles. Uses the same core libraries as Mapbox Studio.
  - martin - is a PostGIS vector tiles server suitable for large databases.
  - mbtileserver - A simple Go-based server for map tiles stored in mbtiles format.
  - tileserver-gl
  - ClusterBuster - in clustering and filtering.
  - djangorestframework-mvt - A Django REST Framework extension for creating views that serve Postgres data as tiles. Tiles can be paginated and filtered by their properties.
  - FastVector - is a multi database PostGIS based vector tile server with cql filtering and caching written in [Python](https://www.python.org/) with [FastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/). Inspired by TiMVT.
  - go-vtile-example - An example server written in Go
  - Kartotherian - generator
  - 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.
  - OSM Scout Server - Maps server providing vector and raster tiles, geocoder, and router. Designed to be used on Linux (mobile and PC) to provide offline maps; written in C++
  - tilenol - A lightweight, scalable tile server that transforms geospatial data stored in multiple backends (e.g. Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL) into Mapbox Vector Tiles on demand
  - tilesplash - A light and quick nodejs webserver for serving topojson or mapbox vector tiles from a postgis backend
  - TileStache
  - tilestrata - with tilestrata-vt, it can generate Mapnik Vector Tiles; with [tilestrata-postgismvt](https://github.com/Stezii/tilestrata-postgismvt), it can serve Mapbox Vector Tiles from a PostGIS db
  - pg_tileserv - A very thin PostGIS-only tile server in Go. Takes in HTTP tile requests, executes SQL, returns MVT tiles.
  - ngx_http_mbtiles_module - Serve mbtiles files directly from nginx. Ideal for low-resource environments or situations where the mbtiles contents are changing frequently.
  - mvt server - A simple and high-speed vector tile server (and more) developed in Rust, using the Salvo web framework.
  - Hastile - Haskell web server using PostGIS to deliver vector tiles.
  - pgsql-omt-schema - A set of templated SQL functions to serve OpenMapTiles [schema](https://openmaptiles.org/schema/) vector tiles from a PostgreSQL database
  - postserve - A small Python based tileserver using ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom to generate vector tiles on the fly. Designed for use with PostGIS 2.4 and the OpenMapTiles project
  - tessella - lightweight Node.js Mapbox Vector Tiles server. Inspired by tessera.
  - tileserver
  - TiMVT - A lightweight PostGIS based dynamic vector tile server.
  - Quarkus MVT Tile Server - A Quarkus application that serves Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS databases.
  - BBOX - An open source server to provide geodata as OGC API features, maps, tiles and more
  - Cloud-Tileserver - Serve vector tiles with AWS. Includes a Lambda-Function written in Typescript to dynamically create vector tiles with postgis. Terraform configuration and step-by-step tutorial is also included.
Articles
- - Creating OpenStreetMap Tiles - create you own vector tileset (and it's raster representation) from openstreetmap pbf data using tilemaker and tileserver-gl.
  - Build Your Own Static Vector Tile Pipeline - guide transforming, encoding and hosting tiles in the cloud; using ogr2ogr + tippecanoe + Mapbox GL JS
  - Using the new MVT function in PostGIS - Building a vector tile service with PostGIS, express, and pg-promise.
  - Serverless Vector Tiles on AWS
  - Tegola OSM/OMT Import Procedure - This document outlines everything necessary to build, from scratch, an operational OpenStreetMap vector tile server. The stack consists of the latest LTS Ubuntu Server distribution, Tegola as the tile server, PostgreSQL as the database, and the use of the open source OpenMapTiles standard schema.
- Applications / Command line tools
  - Vector tiles remixed - guide to using [tilemaker](https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker) to generating vector tiles
  - Using the new MVT function in PostGIS - Building a vector tile service with PostGIS, express, and pg-promise.
Parsers & Generators
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- SwiftVectorTiles - A Swift encoder for vector tiles according to the Mapbox vector tile spec.
- 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.
- vtzero-dart - Dart wrapper for vtzero with vector_tile compatibility layer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- orb - A Go geometry library with mvt <-> geojson support.
Applications / Command line tools
- Baremaps - An open source pipeline for producing Mapbox vector tiles from OpenStreetMap with Postgis and Java.
- Vector Tile Lab - An interactive sandbox to tune vector tiles.
- MVT Styler - map style editor for vector tiles.
- Fresco - is an open source Mapbox Vector Tile Style editor.
- Felt - create, style, and share maps on the web
- 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).
- MVT Styler - map style editor for vector tiles.
- Maputnik - A visual style editor for the Mapbox GL style specification.
- mapbox-gl-inspect - Plugin for Mapbox GL JS to view the view and inspect VT features.
- kosmtik - Design maps with CartoCSS and Mapnik.
- QGIS Vector Tiles Reader - QGIS Python plugin which reads Mapbox Vector Tiles from local MBTiles file or remote
Performance analysis
- vector-tiles-benchmark - Performance comparison of open source vector tiles server solutions for providing geodata from PostGIS databases ([BBOX], [ldproxy], [Martin], [pg_tileserv], [Tegola], [TiPg])
Low-level utilities
- pymgl - Maplibre GL Native Static Renderer for Python
- mvt-fixtures - a suite of valid and invalid test fixtures according to the Mapbox Vector Tile spec versions. Includes simplified unit test fixtures and real-world fixtures to test your encoders and decoders.
- mapbox-gl-function - Mapbox GL style function evaluator :warning: now maintained as party of mapbox-gl-js
- vtzero - minimalist vector tile decoder and encoder in C++

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JavaScript 31 Python 14 C++ 10 Go 8 TypeScript 3 C# 3 Java 3 C 3 PLpgSQL 2 Dart 2

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