MBUtil ZYX

MBUtil ZYX is a fork of the MBUtil utility for importing and exporting the MBTiles format including the ZYX scheme from vips dzsave --google. This fork was created and published to PyPI because the currently published version of mbutil on PyPI does not include the ZYX scheme.

Installation

Git checkout (requires git)

git clone https://github.com/larsmaxfield/mbutil_zyx.git
cd mbutil_zyx
# get usage
./mb-util-zyx -h

Then to install the mb-util-zyx command globally:

sudo python setup.py install
# then you can run:
mb-util-zyx

Python installation (requires easy_install)

easy_install mbutil_zyx
mb-util-zyx -h

Usage

$ mb-util-zyx -h
Usage: mb-util-zyx [options] input output

Examples:

    Export an mbtiles file to a directory of files:
    $ mb-util-zyx world.mbtiles tiles # tiles must not already exist

    Import a directory of tiles into an mbtiles file:
    $ mb-util-zyx tiles world.mbtiles # mbtiles file must not already exist

Options:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit
  --scheme=SCHEME       Tiling scheme of the tiles. Default is "xyz" (z/x/y),
                        other options are "tms" which is also z/x/y
                        but uses a flipped y coordinate, and "wms" which replicates
                        the MapServer WMS TileCache directory structure "z/000/000/x/000/000/y.png"''',
                        and "zyx" which is the format vips dzsave --layout google uses.
  --image_format=FORMAT
                        The format of the image tiles, either png, jpg, webp or pbf
  --grid_callback=CALLBACK
                        Option to control JSONP callback for UTFGrid tiles. If
                        grids are not used as JSONP, you can
                        remove callbacks specifying --grid_callback=""
  --do_compression      Do mbtiles compression
  --silent              Dictate whether the operations should run silently


Export an `mbtiles` file to files on the filesystem:

    mb-util-zyx World_Light.mbtiles adirectory


Import a directory into a `mbtiles` file

    mb-util-zyx directory World_Light.mbtiles

Requirements

• Python >= 2.6

Metadata

MBUtil ZYX imports and exports metadata as JSON, in the root of the tile directory, as a file named metadata.json.

{
    "name": "World Light",
    "description": "A Test Metadata",
    "version": "3"
}

Testing

This project uses nosetests for testing. Install nosetests:

pip install nose

or

easy_install nose

Then run:

nosetests

See Also

• node-mbtiles provides mbpipe, a useful utility.
• mbliberator a similar program but in node.

License

BSD - see LICENSE.md

Authors

• Tom MacWright (tmcw)
• Dane Springmeyer (springmeyer)
• Mathieu Leplatre (leplatrem)