[HN Gopher] Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler
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       Convert Shapefile to Vector Tiles with FileTiler
        
       Author : brendan8229
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-06-07 18:26 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | tony_cannistra wrote:
       | Hm. Not totally sure why someone would pay for this - there are
       | lots of readily-available open-source tools that can do this
       | easily. GDAL/OGR[0] and Tippecanoe [1] come to mind. Maybe I'm
       | missing a less-technical audience?
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       | 0: https://gdal.org/ 1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
        
         | brendan8229 wrote:
         | Right. The service allows one to make tiles without any
         | knowledge of gdal or tippecanoe. The service also hosts the
         | tiles and makes them available.
        
           | tony_cannistra wrote:
           | right but, that's pretty straightforward if you've got some
           | relatively basic CLI comfort and an account with a cloud
           | provider...
        
             | brendan8229 wrote:
             | True. And otherwise a tool like this is very handy.
        
         | acdanger wrote:
         | It's possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles,
         | convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a
         | three commands.
        
           | bdon wrote:
           | Two commands!
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           | ogr2ogr -f GeoJSONSeq /vsistdout/ dataset.shp | tippecanoe -o
           | dataset.pmtiles
           | 
           | aws s3 cp dataset.pmtiles s3://bucket/output.pmtiles
        
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