MBUtil is a utility for importing and exporting the MBTiles format, typically created with MapBox TileMill.
Before exporting tiles to disk, see if there's a MapBox Hosting plan or an open source MBTiles server implementation that works for you - tiles on disk are notoriously difficult to manage.
The new Google Maps Engine Options should make it easy to manage tiles on Google Maps Engine, and this utility will generate a .ebm file automatically which will create all the assets and mosaics you need automatically, including the spatial extents and projection information in a spatial metadata file for each tile.
Git checkout (requires git)
git clone git://github.com/Prindle19/mbutil.git
cd mbutil
./mb-util -h
# then to install the mb-util command globally:
sudo python setup.py install
# then you can run:
mb-util
Python installation (requires easy_install)
easy_install mbutil
mb-util -h
Export an mbtiles
file to files on the filesystem:
mb-util World_Light.mbtiles adirectory
Export an mbtiles
file to files on the filesystem, and generate a Google Maps Engine .ebm file and spatial sidecar files for use on Google Maps Engine:
mb-util --scheme=tms --gme=true --acquisitionDate=2012:10:22 --attribution=OSM --tags="osm, tilemill, osm bright" /gevol/mbtilesexport/OSMBright_Level9.mbtiles /gevol/mbtilesexport
Import a directory into a mbtiles
file
mb-util directory World_Light.mbtiles
- Python
>= 2.6
MBUtil imports and exports metadata as JSON, in the root of the tile directory, as a file named metadata.json
.
{
"name": "World Light",
"description": "A Test Metadata",
"version": "3"
}
This project uses nosetests for testing. Install nosetests and run
nosetests
- node-mbtiles provides mbpipe, a useful utility.
BSD - see LICENSE.md
- Tom MacWright (tmcw)
- Dane Springmeyer (springmeyer)
- Mathieu Leplatre (leplatrem)
- Sean Wohltman (Prindle19)