robertsasak / mbtiles-serve

Fast HTTP server serving tiles directly from mbtiles

mbtiles-serve

Fast HTTP server serving map tiles directly from a mbtiles file. It is built on the mapbox node-mbtiles library without any other dependencies (apart cli meow).

Installation

yarn add mbtiles-serve
# or
npm install mbtiles-serve

Usage

mbtiles-serve norway.mbtiles

Once is server running you can request tiles from http://localhost:8080?x=0&y=0&z=0 For your convinience there is a simple Leaflet map server at the root so you can easily preview map tiles. It can be found at http://localhost:8080

Development

PRs are more than welcome. Start by cloning your fork and installing all the dependencies with

yarn

You can run it directly from the repo by

yarn start input.mbtiles --port 3000

Once you are happy with you changes you can try it globaly with

npm global install .

Publishing

npx np

mbtiles-serve's Issues

Do it support vector tiles

hi Robert,

I tried this with raster based mbtiles and its working.
But for vector mbtiles, it seems to be not working. Just getting empty tiles.

Do it supports vector tiles or only raster tiles.