Mapbox-tileset NPM

Mapbox Tilesets API CLI

Operate the tilesets API to upload and generate tilesets for your Mapbox maps.

The tilesets API works with two basic entities: the tileset-source and the tileset. To generate a tile layer for a map, you need to upload one or more files to a tileset-source and then create a "recipe" that specifies which sources at which zoom levels should appear in a generated tileset.

Setup

Mapbox requires an access token with permissions to create, list, delete, etc. the entities that comprise a tileset. Create an account and create an access token with the needed permissions. Pass the username and token to this tool by creating a .env file with these two values:

MAPBOX_USERNAME=abc
MAPBOX_TOKEN=xyz

Alternatively, send the username as a CLI param -u <username> and the token as -t <access_token>.

Check your geometry file

mapbox-tileset source validate <geometry-file>

This checks that

each line of the file is valid JSON
each point is an array of two numbers
the first coordinate of each polygon is the same as the last
points are not repeated within a polygon

Create a tileset-source

mapbox-tileset source create <source-id> <geometry-file>

Add data to a tileset-source

mapbox-tileset source create <source-id> <geometry-file-2>

To generate a tileset from a tileset-source, use a recipe to specify which sources will be available at which zoom levels. The recipe for the tileset takes this form:

{
  "name": "My Tileset's Name",
  "recipe": {
    "version": 1,
    "layers": {
      "layer_id": {
        "source": "mapbox://tileset-source/my-username/my-tileset-source",
        "minzoom": 5,
        "maxzoom": 8
      }
    }
  }
}

With an available tileset-source and a recipe.json file like the above example,

Create a tileset

mapbox-tileset tileset create <tileset-id> <recipe.json file>

Finally, to generate the tileset that will be usable in a Mapbox map,

Publish a tileset

mapbox-tileset tileset publish <tileset-id>

This step generates a job that can take quite a while to complete, depending on the number of zoom levels required and how much geographical area is included in the geometry sources.