awesome-vector-tiles

vector-tile-js

Parses vector tiles with JavaScript

mapnik-vector-tile

C++ vector tile read/write implementation on top of Mapnik

mbtiles-cpp

C++ library for decoding of mbtiles and vector data into function callbacks

vector-tile-py

Python tool to convert a Mapnik vector tile to GeoJSON

node-mapnik

Node.js API for vector tiles which depends on

vector-tile-cs

Parses vector tiles with C# (native C# implementation, no dependencies)

mapbox-vector-tile-cs

Parses vector tiles with C# (uses protobuf-net)

tilelive-vector

Implements for reading vector tiles and rendering to image tiles in Node.js

tilelive-bridge

Implements for creating vector tiles from traditional Mapnik datasources in Node.js

mapbox-vector-tile

is a Python package for vector tile encoding. Used in Mapzen's vector tile service and TileStache. Only support V1 Tile spec and not V2, no longer maintained

geojson-vt

Slice GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly in the browser

geojson2vt

Python port of to convert GeoJSON into vector tiles

vt2pbf

Python port of encode vector tiles into pbf

java-vector-tile

A java encoder and decoder for vector tiles

mapbox-vector-tile-java

Encode and decode v2.1 Mapbox Vector Tiles. Convert JTS Geometry to and from MVT features, including simple user data support. Utility functions for converting world coordinates to MVT coordinates and clipping to a tile envelope

cached-vector-tile

An alternative implementation of the vector-tile-js interface, backed by plain JS objects/arrays rather than parsed-on-demand protobuf data. Trades away memory efficiency for faster feature.loadGeometry() calls

tilegrinder

A helper library for applying a data altering function on each vector tile in an MBTiles, using the native protobuf wrapper for de- and encoding, recompressing the results and storing them either in an MBTiles or as single files

SwiftVectorTiles

A Swift encoder for vector tiles according to the Mapbox vector tile spec

orb

A Go geometry library with mvt <-> geojson support

dart-vector-tile

A simple Dart package to encode & decode Mapbox Vector Tile

php-vector-tile-data-provider

A Composer library for encoding arbitrary data (as read from GeoJSON/WKT/WKB or populated manually) to MVT. Designed as a base dependency for custom tile server ready for frequent updates on high RPS. Best fit for real-time weather or traffic data visualization

Mapbox GL Native

C++/OpenGL vector maps library with native SDKs for Android, iOS, Node.js, macOS, and Qt

Mapbox GL JS

JavaScript/WebGL vector maps library

MapLibre GL

Is a community led fork derived from Mapbox GL JS prior to their switch to a non-OSS license

JavaScript vector & raster library

WhirlyGlobe/Maply

Objective C code that is able to read and render vector tiles(and style with mapnik xml) on iOS devices

Leaflet.MapboxVectorTile

is able to read PBF MapboxVectorTiles from a REST endpoint and render them as a TileLayer on a Leaflet Map. Use this option if you want to utilize vector tiles on a standard Leaflet web map without needing WebGL

CARTO Mobile SDK

C++ maps library focused on offline features, for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Xamarin with bindings for Java, Objective-C and C#. Based on , but open source and uses CartoCSS

Mapzen Tangram

JavaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL, supports MVT, GeoJSON, TopoJSON

Mapzen Tangram-es

C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps using OpenGL ES 2 with custom styling and interactions

mapbox-gl-leaflet

Create Mapbox GL layers in Leaflet

react-native-mapbox-gl

Render Mapbox GL maps from React applications

hoverboard

Render vector tiles on canvas with Leaflet 0.7.x (supports GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) no longer maintained

Leaflet.VectorGrid

Display gridded vector data (sliced GeoJSON, TopoJSON or Mapbox Vector Tiles) in Leaflet 1.0.0

Draw vector tile layers as part of your web map. Rendering done via integration

mapscii

A Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals

Unofficial Mapbox GL Native bindings for Qt QML

Qt QML bindings for Qt 5.6 and higher

Mapbox-vector-tiles-basic-js-renderer

A fork of mapbox-gl-js giving you full control over rendering of specific tiles, also provides vector tile overlay for google maps

QtPBFImagePlugin

Qt image plugin for displaying Mapbox vector tiles

AliFlux VectorTileRenderer

A highly customizable vector tile renderer built using C# for .Net platform. Comes with bindings for Mapsui and Gmap.Net components

Render vector tile layers on an interactive web map control using JavaScript or TypeScript

Vector Tiles Google Maps

Render vector tile layers on Google Maps

WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets

iTowns

Three.js based JavaScript library for visualizing 2D vector, raster and 3D geospatial data

Web design studio for creating and styling vector tiles

Mapbox Studio Classic

Desktop design studio for both creating vector tiles from raw geodata and for rendering them on-the-fly into image tiles. Internally uses modules to handle vector tiles (see and ) use instead

kosmtik

Design maps with CartoCSS and Mapnik

Generate vector tiles from maps authored in ArcGIS Pro or imported from ArcMap

map style editor for vector tiles

Maputnik

A visual style editor for the Mapbox GL style specification

supports vector tiles as a new map layer type since 3.14 release. It reads and displays styled vector tiles, adds styling GUI and writing (available as a processing toolbox algorithm)

QGIS Vector Tiles Reader

QGIS Python plugin which reads Mapbox Vector Tiles from local MBTiles file or remote

mapbox-gl-inspect

Plugin for Mapbox GL JS to view the view and inspect VT features

Google Chrome extension that parses loaded vector tiles on the fly, shows short statistics and shows each vector tile as GeoJSON

Fresco

is an open source Mapbox Vector Tile Style editor

An open source pipeline for producing Mapbox vector tiles from OpenStreetMap with Postgis and Java

create, style, and share maps on the web

mbview

Watch MBTiles in your localhost. View tiles in a basic Mapbox GL JS webapp locally

tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features

tilemaker

Command line tool to produce vector tiles directly from an .osm.pbf extract without an intermediate database

mapbox-filter

Filter MBTiles according to Mapbox GL JS styles, shrink MBTiles directly, serve locally over http, publish to S3-compatibile storage

Command line tool in C++ to creates vector tiles for a given area at chosen zoom levels using a Mapnik XML. no longer maintained

vt-geojson

decodes vector tiles to GeoJSON FeatureCollections

tl

An alternate command line interface to tilelive

tileshrink

Reduce the layer extent and simplify the resulting geometries of all vector tiles in an MBTiles

tiler @GeoVation

Command line tool for converting GeoJSON, Shapefiles or PostGIS layer to raw Vector Tiles (or MBTiles)

tiler @thomersch

Command line tool to convert GeoJSON to Vector Tiles (written in Go language)

geojson2mvt

npm package for building a static vector tile tree for given xyz bounds from a geojson file (uses )

and - The GDAL/OGR MVT and MBTILES drivers can be used to read and write vector tiles, respectively as tileset on the filesystem or in a mbtiles container (GDAL >= 2.3.0)

MBUtil

Import and export MBTiles to disk no longer maintained

Datamaps

C application that can be used to create vector tiles and store them in an mbtiles. See the command. no longer maintained, use tippecanoe instead

vt2geojson

Command line tool to convert Vector Tiles to GeoJSON (written in language based on the awesome package)

python-vt2geojson

Command line tool and Python package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON

vt2geojson

Command line tool and npm package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON

Display TileJSON info about an mbtiles file

XYZ

Simple tool to procedurally prime XYZ tile caches to a given zoom level

Planetiler

Command-line Java program to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data in a few hours

sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles

Easily generate planet-scale vector tilesets on low memory / low cpu count devices

gl-draw

Adds support for drawing and editing features on Mapbox GL JS maps

Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

BBOX

An open source server to provide geodata as OGC API features, maps, tiles and more

Cloud-Tileserver

Serve vector tiles with AWS. Includes a Lambda-Function written in Typescript to dynamically create vector tiles with postgis. Terraform configuration and step-by-step tutorial is also included

ClusterBuster

A Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) map tiling server with built-in clustering and filtering

djangorestframework-mvt

A Django REST Framework extension for creating views that serve Postgres data as tiles. Tiles can be paginated and filtered by their properties

FastVector

is a multi database PostGIS based vector tile server with cql filtering and caching written in with . Inspired by TiMVT

java web application for sharing and editing geospatial data. available since GeoServer 2.11

go-vtile-example

An example server written in Go

Hastile

Haskell web server using PostGIS to deliver vector tiles

Kartotherian

Wikipedia tile server with backend tile pre-generator

LOD

A thin map tile proxy with in-memory caching and a slim authentication backend

Open Source platform, written in C, for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. MVT output available since version 7.2

martin

is a PostGIS vector tiles server suitable for large databases

mbtileserver

A simple Go-based server for map tiles stored in mbtiles format

Set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMap maps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS and WMTS services for GIS programs, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK

Maps server providing vector and raster tiles, geocoder, and router. Designed to be used on Linux (mobile and PC) to provide offline maps; written in C++

pgsql-omt-schema

A set of templated SQL functions to serve OpenMapTiles vector tiles from a PostgreSQL database

Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

postserve

A small Python based tileserver using ST_AsMVT and ST_AsMVTGeom to generate vector tiles on the fly. Designed for use with PostGIS 2.4 and the OpenMapTiles project

t-rex

MVT server in a single executable written in Rust. Serves tiles from PostGIS supporting custom tile grids

Tegola

is a vector tile server delivering Mapbox Vector Tiles with support for PostGIS and GeoPackage data providers

tessella

lightweight Node.js Mapbox Vector Tiles server. Inspired by tessera

tessera

Supports serving and rendering vector tiles. Uses the same core libraries as Mapbox Studio

tilenol

A lightweight, scalable tile server that transforms geospatial data stored in multiple backends (e.g. Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL) into Mapbox Vector Tiles on demand

tileserver

Mapzen Vector Tile Service

tileserver-gl

Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by Mapbox GL Native. Map tile server for Mapbox GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc

tilesplash

A light and quick nodejs webserver for serving topojson or mapbox vector tiles from a postgis backend

TileStache

added support for Mapbox Vector tiles via .pbf extension requests

tilestrata

with tilestrata-vt, it can generate Mapnik Vector Tiles; with , it can serve Mapbox Vector Tiles from a PostGIS db

An Open Source tiling server maintaining a Vector Tile storage providing a REST interface

SpatialServer (PGRestAPI)

A multi-purpose GeoSpatial NodeJS web server created at that not only serves MBTiles stuffed with vector tiles, it can also cut vector tiles on the fly from a PostGIS database. No longer maintained

Utilery

Server to generate vector tiles from PostGIS queries. Python based no longer maintained

pg_tileserv

A very thin PostGIS-only tile server in Go. Takes in HTTP tile requests, executes SQL, returns MVT tiles

ngx_http_mbtiles_module

Serve mbtiles files directly from nginx. Ideal for low-resource environments or situations where the mbtiles contents are changing frequently

TiMVT

A lightweight PostGIS based dynamic vector tile server

Mapping Platforms to storage process and services GIS Data. Provide DataService API and Maps API (Vector Tiles, WMS, WMTS) Compilance in OGC API Standards

A Quarkus application that serves Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS databases

vt-pbf

serialize JavaScript objects representing vector tiles into binary Protocol Buffer encodings of vector tiles

vtzero

minimalist vector tile decoder and encoder in C++

mvt-fixtures

a suite of valid and invalid test fixtures according to the Mapbox Vector Tile spec versions. Includes simplified unit test fixtures and real-world fixtures to test your encoders and decoders

mapbox-gl-function

Mapbox GL style function evaluator now maintained as party of mapbox-gl-js

Simplifies and complexifies filters in Mapbox GL Styles removed

pymgl

Maplibre GL Native Static Renderer for Python

guide to using to generating vector tiles

guide transforming, encoding and hosting tiles in the cloud; using ogr2ogr + tippecanoe + Mapbox GL JS

Building a vector tile service with PostGIS, express, and pg-promise

Tegola OSM/OMT Import Procedure

This document outlines everything necessary to build, from scratch, an operational OpenStreetMap vector tile server. The stack consists of the latest LTS Ubuntu Server distribution, Tegola as the tile server, PostgreSQL as the database, and the use of the open source OpenMapTiles standard schema

create you own vector tileset (and it's raster representation) from openstreetmap pbf data using tilemaker and tileserver-gl

vector-tiles-benchmark

Performance comparison of open source vector tiles server solutions for providing geodata from PostGIS databases ( , , , , , )