awesome-vector-tiles

Awesome implementations of the Mapbox Vector Tile specification

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awesome-vector-tiles / Parsers & Generators
vector-tile-js 345 3 months ago Parses vector tiles with JavaScript
mapnik-vector-tile 554 about 2 years ago C++ vector tile read/write implementation on top of Mapnik
mbtiles-cpp 34 almost 5 years ago C++ library for decoding of mbtiles and vector data into function callbacks
vector-tile-py 32 almost 6 years ago Python tool to convert a Mapnik vector tile to GeoJSON
node-mapnik 531 8 days ago Node.js API for vector tiles which depends on
vector-tile-cs 57 over 3 years ago Parses vector tiles with C# (native C# implementation, no dependencies)
mapbox-vector-tile-cs 74 9 months ago Parses vector tiles with C# (uses protobuf-net)
tilelive-vector 71 5 months ago Implements for reading vector tiles and rendering to image tiles in Node.js
tilelive-bridge 64 almost 4 years ago Implements for creating vector tiles from traditional Mapnik datasources in Node.js
mapbox-vector-tile 242 4 months ago 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 Only support V1 Tile spec and not V2, no longer maintained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 1,876 3 months ago Slice GeoJSON into vector tiles on the fly in the browser
geojson2vt 44 over 3 years ago Python port of to convert GeoJSON into vector tiles
vt2pbf 14 over 1 year ago Python port of encode vector tiles into pbf
java-vector-tile 182 16 days ago A java encoder and decoder for vector tiles
mapbox-vector-tile-java 148 about 2 years ago 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 8 about 8 years ago 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 67 almost 5 years ago 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 14 over 3 years ago A Swift encoder for vector tiles according to the Mapbox vector tile spec
orb 899 about 2 months ago A Go geometry library with mvt <-> geojson support
dart-vector-tile 15 10 months ago A simple Dart package to encode & decode Mapbox Vector Tile
php-vector-tile-data-provider 2 9 months ago 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

awesome-vector-tiles / Clients
Mapbox GL Native 4,369 about 1 year ago C++/OpenGL vector maps library with native SDKs for Android, iOS, Node.js, macOS, and Qt
Mapbox GL JS 11,100 8 days ago JavaScript/WebGL vector maps library
MapLibre GL 6,380 8 days ago 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 828 23 days ago Objective C code that is able to read and render vector tiles(and style with mapnik xml) on iOS devices
Leaflet.MapboxVectorTile 299 almost 3 years ago 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 183 over 1 year ago 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 2,208 almost 2 years ago JavaScript library for rendering 2D & 3D maps live in a web browser with WebGL, supports MVT, GeoJSON, TopoJSON
Mapzen Tangram-es 822 9 months ago C++ library for rendering 2D and 3D maps using OpenGL ES 2 with custom styling and interactions
mapbox-gl-leaflet 519 over 1 year ago Create Mapbox GL layers in Leaflet
react-native-mapbox-gl 2,161 over 1 year ago Render Mapbox GL maps from React applications
hoverboard 91 over 7 years ago Render vector tiles on canvas with Leaflet 0.7.x (supports GeoJSON, TopoJSON, and protobuf) no longer maintained
Leaflet.VectorGrid 600 about 1 year ago 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 7,841 3 months ago A Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals
Unofficial Mapbox GL Native bindings for Qt QML 37 7 months ago Qt QML bindings for Qt 5.6 and higher
Mapbox-vector-tiles-basic-js-renderer 131 over 1 year ago A fork of mapbox-gl-js giving you full control over rendering of specific tiles, also provides vector tile overlay for google maps
QtPBFImagePlugin 47 4 months ago Qt image plugin for displaying Mapbox vector tiles
AliFlux VectorTileRenderer 184 over 2 years ago 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 38 about 1 year ago Render vector tile layers on Google Maps
deckGl WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets
iTowns 1,097 11 days ago Three.js based JavaScript library for visualizing 2D vector, raster and 3D geospatial data

awesome-vector-tiles / Applications / Command line tools
Mapbox Studio Web design studio for creating and styling vector tiles
Mapbox Studio Classic 1,141 about 6 years ago 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 714 8 months ago 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 2,072 10 days ago 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 149 4 months ago QGIS Python plugin which reads Mapbox Vector Tiles from local MBTiles file or remote
mapbox-gl-inspect 142 about 4 years ago 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 228 over 1 year ago 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

awesome-vector-tiles / CLI Utilities
mbview 377 over 3 years ago Watch MBTiles in your localhost. View tiles in a basic Mapbox GL JS webapp locally
tippecanoe 922 10 days ago Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features
tilemaker 1,446 12 days ago Command line tool to produce vector tiles directly from an .osm.pbf extract without an intermediate database
mapbox-filter 27 8 months ago 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 60 over 8 years ago decodes vector tiles to GeoJSON FeatureCollections
tl 38 about 6 years ago An alternate command line interface to tilelive
tileshrink 31 almost 5 years ago Reduce the layer extent and simplify the resulting geometries of all vector tiles in an MBTiles
tiler @GeoVation 152 about 7 years ago Command line tool for converting GeoJSON, Shapefiles or PostGIS layer to raw Vector Tiles (or MBTiles)
tiler @thomersch 53 over 2 years ago Command line tool to convert GeoJSON to Vector Tiles (written in Go language)
geojson2mvt 100 over 4 years ago 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 756 2 months ago Import and export MBTiles to disk no longer maintained
Datamaps 341 about 10 years ago 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 4 over 1 year ago Command line tool to convert Vector Tiles to GeoJSON (written in language based on the awesome package)
python-vt2geojson 30 over 1 year ago Command line tool and Python package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON
vt2geojson 131 over 1 year ago Command line tool and npm package for converting vector tiles into GeoJSON
tileinfo Display TileJSON info about an mbtiles file
XYZ 25 over 1 year ago Simple tool to procedurally prime XYZ tile caches to a given zoom level
Planetiler 1,341 8 days ago Command-line Java program to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data in a few hours
sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles 99 about 1 year ago Easily generate planet-scale vector tilesets on low memory / low cpu count devices

awesome-vector-tiles / Mapbox GL JS Plugins
gl-draw 943 11 days ago Adds support for drawing and editing features on Mapbox GL JS maps

awesome-vector-tiles / Servers
ArcGIS Online Supports serving vector tiles and rendering in the mapping application powered by the ArcGIS API for JavaScript
BBOX 64 about 1 month ago An open source server to provide geodata as OGC API features, maps, tiles and more
Cloud-Tileserver 62 2 months ago 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 88 11 months ago A Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) map tiling server with built-in clustering and filtering
djangorestframework-mvt 49 almost 3 years ago A Django REST Framework extension for creating views that serve Postgres data as tiles. Tiles can be paginated and filtered by their properties
FastVector 49 about 2 years ago 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 54 about 8 years ago An example server written in Go
Hastile 19 over 3 years ago Haskell web server using PostGIS to deliver vector tiles
Kartotherian 238 about 3 years ago Wikipedia tile server with backend tile pre-generator
LOD 20 9 days ago 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 2,194 8 days ago is a PostGIS vector tiles server suitable for large databases
mbtileserver 645 3 days ago 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 5 8 months ago 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 34 almost 5 years ago 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 555 11 days ago MVT server in a single executable written in Rust. Serves tiles from PostGIS supporting custom tile grids
Tegola 1,280 about 2 months ago is a vector tile server delivering Mapbox Vector Tiles with support for PostGIS and GeoPackage data providers
tessella 83 over 1 year ago lightweight Node.js Mapbox Vector Tiles server. Inspired by tessera
tessera 324 3 months ago Supports serving and rendering vector tiles. Uses the same core libraries as Mapbox Studio
tilenol 22 17 days ago A lightweight, scalable tile server that transforms geospatial data stored in multiple backends (e.g. Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL) into Mapbox Vector Tiles on demand
tileserver 79 4 months ago Mapzen Vector Tile Service
tileserver-gl 2,192 12 days ago 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 179 about 6 years ago A light and quick nodejs webserver for serving topojson or mapbox vector tiles from a postgis backend
TileStache 758 5 months ago added support for Mapbox Vector tiles via .pbf extension requests
tilestrata 427 about 3 years ago 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) 436 over 6 years ago 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 41 almost 7 years ago Server to generate vector tiles from PostGIS queries. Python based no longer maintained
pg_tileserv 859 4 months ago A very thin PostGIS-only tile server in Go. Takes in HTTP tile requests, executes SQL, returns MVT tiles
ngx_http_mbtiles_module 14 7 months ago Serve mbtiles files directly from nginx. Ideal for low-resource environments or situations where the mbtiles contents are changing frequently
TiMVT 185 3 months ago 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

awesome-vector-tiles / Low-level utilities
vt-pbf 187 3 months ago serialize JavaScript objects representing vector tiles into binary Protocol Buffer encodings of vector tiles
vtzero 86 11 months ago minimalist vector tile decoder and encoder in C++
mvt-fixtures 27 30 days ago 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 12 over 7 years ago 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 34 11 days ago Maplibre GL Native Static Renderer for Python

awesome-vector-tiles / Articles
Vector tiles remixed guide to using to generating vector tiles
Build Your Own Static Vector Tile Pipeline guide transforming, encoding and hosting tiles in the cloud; using ogr2ogr + tippecanoe + Mapbox GL JS
Using the new MVT function in PostGIS Building a vector tile service with PostGIS, express, and pg-promise
Serverless Vector Tiles on AWS 101 about 6 years ago
Tegola OSM/OMT Import Procedure 35 almost 3 years ago 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
Creating OpenStreetMap Tiles create you own vector tileset (and it's raster representation) from openstreetmap pbf data using tilemaker and tileserver-gl

awesome-vector-tiles / Performance analysis
vector-tiles-benchmark 5 11 days ago Performance comparison of open source vector tiles server solutions for providing geodata from PostGIS databases ( , , , , , )

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