tippecanoe
A command line tool that builds vector tilesets from large or small collections of GeoJSON, Geobuf or CSV data. It is used to prepare data for fast display on web and mobile maps.
Share on XLicense: BSD-2-Clause
Overview
Tippecanoe is a command line tool that builds vector tilesets from large or small collections of GeoJSON, Geobuf or CSV features. The resulting tiles can be shown on web and mobile maps. The README notes that an actively maintained fork exists at felt/tippecanoe, and that Mapbox offers a hosted alternative, Mapbox Tiling Service, for creating tilesets.
Key features
- Reads GeoJSON, Geobuf and CSV input
- Produces vector tilesets for web and mobile maps
- Handles both large and small feature collections
- Written in C++ and run from the command line
Best for
People who need to turn their own geographic data into vector tiles on their own machine. The README points to felt/tippecanoe as the active fork.
- Upstream
- mapbox/tippecanoe
- Fork on GitHub
- Guo-astro/tippecanoe
- Upstream stars
- 3.1k
- Category
- Maps and geospatial
- Language
- C++
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Forked
- 2020-11-01
- Sync status
- In syncLast synced 2026-09-29
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