mapbox/tippecanoe

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

3112 stars · 431 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A C++ command-line tool that builds vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON, Geobuf, or CSV features. It creates scale-independent views of geographic data so density and texture remain visible at every zoom level.

Use cases

• convert large geo files into vector tiles
• generate mbtiles tilesets from csv point data
• make a zoomable map of all building footprints
• tile millions of openstreetmap features for web maps
• create scale-independent map visualizations of dense geodata

When to choose

• you need to tile very large GeoJSON datasets locally without a hosted service
• you want fine control over zoom levels, dropping, and feature density in tiles
• you are producing MBTiles/vector tiles for Mapbox GL, Leaflet, or similar renderers

When to avoid

• you want a managed hosted tiling pipeline (consider Mapbox Tiling Service)
• you need actively developed features - the maintained fork is felt/tippecanoe
• you need raster tiles rather than vector tiles

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

geospatial cli data-science developer-tools cli vector-tiles geo mapbox mbtiles tileset-generation maps geospatial linux macos

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