Take tiles from an mbtiles file locally (eg vector tiles) and extracts them to ZXY structure in an S3 bucket or locally. Also works for mbtiles files containing raster tiles.

npm install -g mbtiles-extractor

mbtiles-extractor --input=some.mbtiles --bucket=myTiles --maxZoom=10

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🎉  All tiles written to AWS S3 myTiles/tiles/

// or using locally

mbtiles-extractor --input=some.mbtiles --outputType=local --localOutDir=Data --tileDir=mytiles

🎉 All tiles written to /Data/mytiles

Features

• Supports vector and raster tiles
• Throws a prompt if you're about to override existing content in a bucket or local directory
• Uses concurrent PUT requests to AWS S3 and file writes locally

Options

--input Required The filepath of an mbtiles file. Eg --input=some.mbtiles

--outputType=S3 Where you want to store the tiles, either S3 or local. Defaults to S3.

--inRoot=false If you want to place the tiles in the root of the output location (using no tileDir)

--tileDir=tiles A directory to place the tiles in within the output dir or bucket. Quite handy using with S3.

--minZoom=0 The minimum zoom level of tiles to transfer. Eg if minZoom=3 then levels 1 & 2 will not be transfered

--maxZoom The maximum zoom level of tiles to transfer. Eg if maxZoom=4 then levels 5 and above won't be transfered. If not specified this is calculated from the mbtiles file.

--fileExtension Overrides the file extension contained in the metadata table.

--maxOperations The maximum number of requests or files to write, defaults to 1000. AWS advises it's possible to send as many as 3500 per second.

AWS S3 Related Options

--bucket The name of a pre-existing bucket to put the tiles in.

--awsProfile The name of an AWS profile to use.

--acl=public-read The access control level of the tile.

Local storage options

--localOutDir Required The name of a folder to place the tiles in.

Handling AWS roles & profiles

If you need to use a named profile pass in the awsProfile option.

For example

export AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1
export AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE=$HOME/.aws/credentials
export AWS_CONFIG_FILE=$HOME/.aws/config
// Followed by

mbtiles-extractor --input=EEZ.mbtiles --bucket=someBucket --tileDir=EEZ --maxZoom=10 --awsProfile=myNamedProfile

Motivation

I ran into lots of grief with mapbox-tile-copy across various node versions. It has a huge nesting of dependencies which seemed to get confused around various binding versions for sqllite3 and mapnik etc. This library is fair bit simpler in it's dependencies.

This cli is also a bit faster

• node-mbtiles as described here 148 seconds
• mbtiles-extractor 117 seconds

To Do

• Investigate storing in Azure or Google Cloud