https://github.com/jahed/maptiles

Map tile generator. Converts an image into map tiles using ImageMagick. Map tiles can be used in Google Maps, Leaflet, FrontierNav, and other map rendering software.
https://github.com/jahed/maptiles

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Map tile generator. Converts an image into map tiles using ImageMagick. Map tiles can be used in Google Maps, Leaflet, FrontierNav, and other map rendering software.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jahed/maptiles
• Owner: jahed
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2016-02-03T15:25:12.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-10T03:41:13.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-17T10:05:23.610Z (7 days ago)
• Topics: bash, frontiernav, imagemagick, leaflet, map, map-tiles, mapping, maps, openlayers
• Language: Shell
• Homepage: https://jahed.dev
• Size: 165 KB
• Stars: 75
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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NAME

  maptiles - converts an image to map tiles

SYNOPSIS

  ./maptiles  [] 

DESCRIPTION

  Converts an image to map tiles to be used in Google Maps, Leaflet and other

  map rendering software.

  Version:   v4.0.1

  Homepage:  https://github.com/jahed/maptiles

  Donate:    https://jahed.dev/donate

OPTIONS

  

    Image to convert into tiles. Must exist. Must be square, otherwise

    see --square option.

  

    Output directory. Must NOT exist, to avoid polluting existing directories.

  -f, --format 

    Tile format (e.g. 'png'). Defaults to  file extension.

  -b, --background 

    Can be any ImageMagick-compatible colour. Defaults to 'none' (transparent).

    See: https://imagemagick.org/script/color.php

  -o, --optimise (lossy|lossless)

    Optimises tiles depending on the .

    * png uses pngquant (lossy) or optipng (lossless)

    * jpg uses jpegtran (lossless)

    Lossy optimisations may cause a size increase depending on each tile's

    complexity. Only use it for maps which store a lot of detail per tile.

  -s, --square

    Converts a non-square  into a square one, using whichever

    dimension is largest and centering the image.

  -j, --json 

    Creates a TileJSON v2.2.0 file.  is used to create the tiles URL:

      /{z}/{x}/{y}.

    Use a placeholder such as '{b}' or '' to complete the URL later.

    See: https://github.com/mapbox/tilejson-spec/tree/master/2.2.0

  -h, --help

    Prints this help message.

  --version

    Prints the name and version.

OUTPUT

  Tiles in the  will take the format of:

    /{z}/{x}/{y}.

  {z} will start at 0 and go up to the maximum zoom possible for the

   rounding up to the next zoom level. An  with

  dimensions 2048x2048 will go up to 4 whereas an image with 3000x3000 will go

  up to 5. This is done to make the most out of the level of detail in the image

  without enlargening too much.

  Each tile has a dimension of 256x256 and each {z} goes up in

  dimensions of 2 to the power of {z} (i.e. 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 8x8, etc.).

  So overall, for each zoom level, the resulting map resolution will be 256x256,

  512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048 and so on.

  If you're using Leaflet, I suggest you set this maximum zoom as your

  map.maxNativeZoom so you can have higher zoom levels without the need to

  download larger, low quality, upscaled tiles. Alternatively, use the TileJSON.

EXAMPLES

  Take a detailed image and create optimised tiles to save space.

    ./maptiles detailed_map.png --optimise lossy ./tiles

  Take an image, square it with a red background and output it as JPG tiles.

    ./maptiles map.png --square --format jpg --background #ff0000 ./tiles

DEPENDENCIES

  Required

    ImageMagick  https://www.imagemagick.org

    Bash         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29

  Optional

    pngquant    https://pngquant.org/

    optipng     http://optipng.sourceforge.net/

    jpegtran    https://jpegclub.org/jpegtran/

COPYRIGHT

  Copyright (C) 2024 Jahed Ahmed

  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by

  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

  GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License

  along with this program.  If not, see .