MBUtil is a utility for importing and exporting the MBTiles format, typically created with MapBox TileMill.
Before exporting tiles to disk, see if there's a MapBox Hosting plan or an open source MBTiles server implementation that works for you - tiles on disk are notoriously difficult to manage.
Git checkout (requires git)
git clone git://github.com/mapbox/mbutil.git
cd mbutil
./mb-util -h
# then to install the mb-util command globally:
sudo python setup.py install
# then you can run:
mb-util
Python installation (requires easy_install)
easy_install mbutil
mb-util -h
Export an mbtiles file to files on the filesystem:
mb-util World_Light.mbtiles adirectory
Import a directory into a mbtiles file
mb-util directory World_Light.mbtiles
- Python
>= 2.6
MBUtil imports and exports metadata as JSON, in the root of the tile directory, as a file named metadata.json.
{
"name": "World Light",
"description": "A Test Metadata",
"version": "3"
}This project uses nosetests for testing. Install nosetests and run
nosetests
- node-mbtiles provides mbpipe, a useful utility.
BSD - see LICENSE.md
- Tom MacWright (tmcw)
- Dane Springmeyer (springmeyer)
- Mathieu Leplatre (leplatrem)