Skip to main content
Pre-release

This release is a pre-release and may not be stable for production use.

Landez manipulates tiles, builds MBTiles, does tiles compositing and arrange tiles together into single images.

Tiles can either be obtained from a remote tile service URL, from a local Mapnik stylesheet, a WMS server or from MBTiles files.

For building MBTiles, Landez embeds mbutil from Mapbox https://github.com/mapbox/mbutil at the final stage. The land covered is specified using a list of bounding boxes and zoom levels.

INSTALL

Landez is pure python and has no external dependency.

However, it requires mapnik if the tiles are rendered locally.

sudo aptitude install python-mapnik

And PIL to blend tiles together or export arranged tiles into images.

sudo aptitude install python-imaging

USAGE

Building MBTiles files

Remote tiles

Using a remote tile service (OpenStreetMap.org by default):

import logging
from landez import MBTilesBuilder

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

mb = MBTilesBuilder(remote=True, cache=False)
mb.add_coverage(bbox=(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0),
                    zoomlevels=[0, 1])
mb.run()

Please respect Tile usage policies <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy>

Local rendering

Using mapnik to render tiles:

import logging
from landez import MBTilesBuilder

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

mb = MBTilesBuilder(stylefile="yourstyle.xml", filepath="dest.mbtiles")
mb.add_coverage(bbox=(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0),
                zoomlevels=[0, 1])
mb.run()

From an other MBTiles file

import logging
from landez import MBTilesBuilder

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

mb = MBTilesBuilder(mbtiles_file="yourfile.mbtiles", filepath="dest.mbtiles")
mb.add_coverage(bbox=(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0),
                zoomlevels=[0, 1])
mb.run()

From a WMS server

mb = MBTilesBuilder(wms_server="http://yourserver.com/geoserver/wms",
                    wms_layers=["ign:departements"],
                    wms_options=dict(format="image/png",
                                     transparent=True),
                    filepath="dest.mbtiles")
mb.add_coverage(bbox=([-0.9853,43.6435.1126,44.0639]))
mb.run()

Manipulate tiles

from landez import MBTilesBuilder

# From a TMS tile server
# tm = TilesManager(tiles_url="http://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png")

# From a MBTiles file
tm = TilesManager(mbtiles_file="yourfile.mbtiles")

tiles = tm.tileslist(bbox=(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0),
                     zoomlevels=[0, 1])
for tile in tiles:
    tm.prepare_tile(tile)  # download, extract or take from cache
    tile_path = tm.tile_fullpath(tile)
    ...

Blend tiles together

Merge multiple sources of tiles (URL, WMS, MBTiles, Mapnik stylesheet) together. (requires python PIL)

For example, build a new MBTiles by blending tiles of a MBTiles on top of OpenStreetMap tiles :

mb = MBTilesBuilder(filepath="merged.mbtiles")
overlay = TilesManager(mbtiles_file="carto.mbtiles")
mb.add_layer(overlay)
mb.run()

Or composite a WMS layer with OpenStreetMap using transparency (40%):

ie = ImageExporter(wms_server="http://yourserver.com/geoserver/wms",
                   wms_layers=["img:orthophoto"])
overlay = TilesManager(remote=True)
mb.add_layer(overlay, 0.4)
mb.run()

Export Images

Assemble and arrange tiles together into a single image. (requires python PIL)

Specify tiles sources in the exact same way as for building MBTiles files.

import logging
from landez import ImageExporter

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

ie = ImageExporter(mbtiles_file="yourfile.mbtiles")
ie.export_image(bbox=(-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0), zoomlevel=3, imagepath="image.png")

Extract MBTiles content

from landez.reader import MBTilesReader

mbreader = MBTilesReader("yourfile.mbtiles")

# Metadata
print mbreader.metadata()

# Zoom levels
print mbreader.zoomlevels()

# Image tile
with open('tile.png', 'wb') as out:
    out.write(reader.tile(z, x, y))

# UTF-Grid tile
print reader.grid(z, x, y, 'callback')

AUTHORS

LICENSE

  • Lesser GNU Public License

CHANGELOG

2.0.0-alpha (2012-05-23)

  • Refactoring of whole stack

1.8.2 (2012-03-27)

  • Fix Mapnik rendering

1.8.1 (2012-02-24)

  • Fix MBTiles cache cleaning

1.8 (2012-02-24)

  • WMS support

  • Tiles compositing

1.7 (2012-02-17)

  • Catch Sqlite exceptions

1.6 (2012-02-08)

  • UTF-Grid support for MBTiles files

1.5 (2011-12-07)

  • Subdomain support for tiles servers

  • Low level tiles manipulation

  • Use i18n

1.4 (2011-10-17)

  • Remove extra logging message of mbutil

1.3 (2011-09-23)

  • Export set of tiles into single image

1.2 (2011-06-21)

  • Raise exception if no tiles in coverages

1.1 (2012-04-18)

  • Move internals to landez module

  • Split projection into separate module

1.0 (2011-04-18)

  • Initial working version

Metadata

Release files for landez 2.0.0-alpha

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for landez 2.0.0-alpha
File Size Uploaded
landez-2.0.0-alpha.zip 25.9 kB Details

Release files / landez-2.0.0-alpha.zip

Download URL landez-2.0.0-alpha.zip
Size 25.9 kB
Tags Source
SHA-256 checksum
How to use checksums
8ec4cbc8d1b3e69a71d14e87522e7340737a2e8bb9e0ae6284d600030af9f632
BLAKE2b-256 checksum
How to use checksums
e20ea89f4768d23099d0b6b116bba6d282d3e85013a35aa2bd1e3233569708a7
Upload date
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing?
What is trusted publishing?
No

Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

2.5.1

2 release files

2.5.0

1 release file

2.4.1

1 release file

2.4.0

1 release file

2.3.0

1 release file

2.2.0

1 release file

2.1.1

1 release file

2.1.0

1 release file

2.0.3

1 release file

2.0.2

1 release file

2.0.1

1 release file

2.0.0

1 release file

This release

2.0.0-alpha This release

1 release file

1.8.2

1 release file

1.8.1

1 release file

1.8

1 release file

1.7

1 release file

1.6

1 release file

1.5

1 release file

1.4

1 release file

1.3

1 release file

1.2

1 release file

1.1

1 release file

1.0

1 release file

0.0

Anthropic, PBC Visionary sponsor Bloomberg Visionary sponsor Hudson River Trading Visionary sponsor Meta Visionary sponsor NVIDIA Visionary sponsor Microsoft Sustainability sponsor Depot Continuous Integration AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page