https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive-bridge

Implements the tilelive API for generating mapnik vector tiles from traditional mapnik datasources.
https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive-bridge

Last synced: about 1 month ago
JSON representation

Implements the tilelive API for generating mapnik vector tiles from traditional mapnik datasources.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive-bridge
• Owner: mapbox
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2013-03-15T17:32:16.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-01T02:07:43.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-19T23:22:51.790Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 8.94 MB
• Stars: 64
• Watchers: 126
• Forks: 46
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

• awesome-vector-tiles - 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. (Parsers & Generators)

README

        
tilelive-bridge

---------------

Implements the tilelive API for generating mapnik vector tiles from traditional mapnik datasources.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/mapbox/tilelive-bridge.svg?branch=master)](http://travis-ci.com/mapbox/tilelive-bridge)

### new Bridge(options, callback)

- *xml*: a Mapnik XML string that will be used to generate vector tiles.

- *base*: Optional, basepath for Mapnik map. Defaults to `__dirname`.

## Installation

    npm install @mapbox/tilelive-bridge

Though `tilelive` is not a dependency of `tilelive-bridge` you will want to

install it to actually make use of `tilelive-bridge` through a reasonable

API.

## Usage

```javascript

var tilelive = require('tilelive');

require('@mapbox/tilelive-bridge').registerProtocols(tilelive);

tilelive.load('bridge:///path/to/file.xml', function(err, source) {

    if (err) throw err;

    // Interface is in XYZ/Google coordinates.

    // Use `y = (1 << z) - 1 - y` to flip TMS coordinates.

    source.getTile(0, 0, 0, function(err, tile, headers) {

        // `err` is an error object when generation failed, otherwise null.

        // `tile` contains the compressed image file as a Buffer

        // `headers` is a hash with HTTP headers for the image.

    });

    // The `.getGrid` is implemented accordingly.

});

```

### Limiting tile sizes

You can set a limit to the size of vector tiles created (in bytes) by setting the `BRIDGE_MAX_VTILE_BYTES_COMPRESSED=n` environment variable. If a tile is generated and larger than the threshold, the process will return `Tile >= max allowed size` as an error.

If you'd like to get statistics about tiles above a certain byte size (before limiting with the above), you can provide the `BRIDGE_LOG_MAX_VTILE_BYTES_COMPRESSED=n` environment variable in your tilelive-driven application and this will generate a stats object on you file system named `tilelive-bridge-stats.json` which includes the average tile size, the maximum tile size, and the number of tiles greater than the threshold set with the environment variable.