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Awesome implementations of the Mapbox Vector Tile specification

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Vector tile library

A collection of implementations and tools for encoding and decoding vector tile data

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Parsers & Generators

  • 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 Only support V1 Tile spec and not V2, no longer maintained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

Clients

  • 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

  • OpenLayers

    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

  • ArcGIS API for JavaScript

    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

  • Azure Maps Web SDK

    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

  • deckGl

    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

Applications / Command line tools

  • Mapbox Studio

    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

  • ArcGIS Pro

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

  • MVT Styler

    map style editor for vector tiles

  • Maputnik

    A visual style editor for the Mapbox GL style specification

  • QGIS

    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

  • Mapbox MVT Chrome Extension

    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

  • Baremaps

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

  • Felt

    create, style, and share maps on the web

CLI Utilities

  • 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

  • vector-tiles-producer

    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 )

  • OGR MVT

    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

  • tileinfo

    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

Mapbox GL JS Plugins

  • gl-draw

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

Servers

  • ArcGIS Online

    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

  • GeoServer

    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

  • MapServer

    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

  • OpenMapTiles

    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

  • OSM Scout Server

    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

  • Portal for ArcGIS

    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

  • Tyler

    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

  • Vallaris Maps

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

  • Quarkus MVT Tile Server

    A Quarkus application that serves Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS databases

Low-level utilities

  • 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

  • mapbox-gl-filter-simplify

    Simplifies and complexifies filters in Mapbox GL Styles removed

  • pymgl

    Maplibre GL Native Static Renderer for Python

Articles

Performance analysis

  • vector-tiles-benchmark

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

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