A python library for generating map tiles inspired by gdal2tiles.py from GDAL project.
- GDAL development header files, sometimes available as libgdal-dev or libgdal-devel packages.
To install gdal2tiles library you can use pip:
$ pip install gdal2tiles
import gdal2tiles
gdal2tiles.generate_tiles('/path/to/input_file', '/path/to/output_dir/')
You can also pass various keyword as optional keyword arguments to generate_tiles() function. For example
gdal2tiles.generate_tiles('input_file', 'output_dir/', nb_processes=2, zoom='7-9')
OR
options = {'zoom': (7, 9), 'resume': True}
gdal2tiles.generate_tiles('input_file', 'output_dir/', **options)
In general
gdal2tiles.generate_tiles(input_file, output_folder, **options)
- Arguments:
input_file
(str): Path to input file.output_folder
(str): Path to output folder.options
: Tile generation options.- Options:
profile
(str): Tile cutting profile (mercator,geodetic,raster) - default- 'mercator' (Google Maps compatible)
resampling
(str): Resampling method (average,near,bilinear,cubic,cubicsp- line,lanczos,antialias) - default 'average'
s_srs
: The spatial reference system used for the source input datazoom
: Zoom levels to render; format: '[int min, int max]',- 'min-max' or 'int/str zoomlevel'.
tile_size
(int): Size of tiles to render - default 256resume
(bool): Resume mode. Generate only missing files.srcnodata
: NODATA transparency value to assign to the input datatmscompatible
(bool): When using the geodetic profile, specifies the base- resolution as 0.703125 or 2 tiles at zoom level 0.
verbose
(bool): Print status messages to stdoutkml
(bool): Generate KML for Google Earth - default for 'geodetic'- profile and 'raster' in EPSG:4326. For a dataset with different projection use with caution!
url
(str): URL address where the generated tiles are going to be publishedwebviewer
(str): Web viewer to generate (all,google,openlayers,none) -- default 'all'
title
(str): Title of the mapcopyright
(str): Copyright for the mapgooglekey
(str): Google Maps API key from- http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
bingkey
(str): Bing Maps API key from https://www.bingmapsportal.com/nb_processes
(int): Number of processes to use for tiling.