Vector Tiles Pipeline (GeoJSON → MBTiles → MVT/PBF)

A fast, reproducible pipeline for turning GeoJSON layers into vector tiles for MapLibre/Mapbox-style frontends.

2025-12-27
Tippecanoe MBTiles MVT/PBF Bash/Python MapLibre

What it isšŸ”—

A packaging pipeline that converts large GeoJSON datasets into:

  1. MBTiles using tippecanoe
  2. foldered MVT/PBF tiles using mb-util (or equivalent tooling)

HighlightsšŸ”—

NotesšŸ”—

I’m actively exploring faster paths (Rust tooling, parallelization strategies, or direct tile generation) for very large layers and frequent rebuilds.