geojson2vt 1.0.1

Python package to convert GeoJSON to vector tiles

Usage

geojson2vt

# build an initial index of tiles
tile_index = geojson2vt(geojson, {})

# request a particular tile
features = tile_index.get_tile(z, x, y).get('features')

# show an array of tile coordinates created so far
print(tile_index.tile_coords) # [{'z': 0, 'x': 0, 'y': 0}, ...]

You can fine-tune the results with an options object, although the defaults are sensible and work well for most use cases.

By default, tiles at zoom levels above indexMaxZoom are generated on the fly, but you can pre-generate all possible tiles for data by setting indexMaxZoom and maxZoom to the same value, setting indexMaxPoints to 0, and then accessing the resulting tile coordinates from the tile_coords property of tile_index.

The promoteId and generateId options ignore existing id values on the feature objects.

geojson2vt only operates on zoom levels up to 24.

tile_index = geojson2vt(data, {
    'maxZoom': 14,  # max zoom to preserve detail on; can't be higher than 24
    'tolerance': 3, # simplification tolerance (higher means simpler)
    'extent': 4096, # tile extent (both width and height)
    'buffer': 64,   # tile buffer on each side
    'lineMetrics': False, # whether to enable line metrics tracking for LineString/MultiLineString features
    'promoteId': None,    # name of a feature property to promote to feature.id. Cannot be used with `generateId`
    'generateId': False,  # whether to generate feature ids. Cannot be used with `promoteId`
    'indexMaxZoom': 5,       # max zoom in the initial tile index
    'indexMaxPoints': 100000 # max number of points per tile in the index
}, logging.INFO)

vt2geojson

# build an initial index of tiles
tile_index = geojson2vt(geojson_data, {})

# get a specific tile
vt_tile = tile_index.get_tile(z, x, y)

# convert a specific vector tile to GeoJSON
geojson = vt2geojson(vt_tile)

Acknowledgements

All the credit belongs to the collaborators of JS GeoJSON-VT.