A plugin for the Rasterio CLI that exports a raster dataset to the MBTiles (version 1.1) format. Features include automatic reprojection and parallel processing.
$ rio mbtiles --help
Usage: rio mbtiles [OPTIONS] INPUT [OUTPUT]
Export a dataset to MBTiles (version 1.1) in a SQLite file.
The input dataset may have any coordinate reference system. It must have
at least three bands, which will be become the red, blue, and green bands
of the output image tiles.
An optional fourth alpha band may be copied to the output tiles by using
the --rgba option in combination with the PNG format. This option requires
that the input dataset has at least 4 bands.
If no zoom levels are specified, the defaults are the zoom levels nearest
to the one at which one tile may contain the entire source dataset.
If a title or description for the output file are not provided, they will
be taken from the input dataset's filename.
This command is suited for small to medium (~1 GB) sized sources.
Python package: rio-mbtiles (https://github.com/mapbox/rio-mbtiles).
Options:
-o, --output PATH Path to output file (optional alternative to
a positional arg).
--overwrite Always overwrite an existing output file.
--title TEXT MBTiles dataset title.
--description TEXT MBTiles dataset description.
--overlay Export as an overlay (the default).
--baselayer Export as a base layer.
-f, --format [JPEG|PNG] Tile image format.
--tile-size INTEGER Width and height of individual square tiles
to create. [default: 256]
--zoom-levels MIN..MAX A min...max range of export zoom levels. The
default zoom level is the one at which the
dataset is contained within a single tile.
--image-dump PATH A directory into which image tiles will be
optionally dumped.
-j INTEGER Number of worker processes (default: 3).
--src-nodata FLOAT Manually override source nodata
--dst-nodata FLOAT Manually override destination nodata
--resampling [nearest|bilinear|cubic|cubic_spline|lanczos|average|mode|gauss|max|min|med|q1|q3]
Resampling method to use. [default:
nearest]
--version Show the version and exit.
--rgba Select RGBA output. For PNG only.
--help Show this message and exit.The rio-mbtiles command is suited for small to medium (~1 GB) raster sources. On a MacBook Air, the 1:10M scale Natural Earth raster (a 21,600 x 10,800 pixel, 700 MB TIFF) exports to MBTiles (levels 1 through 5) in 45 seconds.
$ time GDAL_CACHEMAX=256 rio mbtiles NE1_HR_LC.tif \
> -o ne.mbtiles --zoom-levels 1..5 -j 4
real 0m44.925s
user 1m20.152s
sys 0m22.428spip install rio-mbtiles