VersaTiles is a toolkit for processing and serving map tile data. Its core implementation is written in Rust and is designed for workflows where developers want direct control over converting, filtering, validating, storing and delivering vector or raster tiles.
It can be used as a command-line utility for individual conversion jobs or as part of a larger self-hosted mapping stack. VersaTiles works with local and remote tile sources and can serve map data together with the assets needed by a browser-based map frontend.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Reads and writes VersaTiles, PMTiles, MBTiles, tar archives and directory-based tile stores.
- Can access supported tile containers over HTTP and other remote sources as well as local files.
- Converts between tile container formats while filtering by geographic bounding box and zoom range.
- Processes raster tiles and supports commonly used image and compression formats.
- Provides a pipeline language for constructing repeatable map-data processing workflows.
- Can ingest geospatial source data including GeoJSON, newline-delimited GeoJSON, Shapefile and point data from CSV.
- Includes commands for inspecting tile containers and validating their contents.
- Runs a high-performance tile server capable of serving multiple tile sources from one configuration.
- Can serve a map frontend together with styles, fonts and symbols for MapLibre-based maps.
- Supports configuration through YAML for more complex server setups, including headers and cross-origin access settings.
- Offers downloadable map datasets including OpenStreetMap vector tiles and additional terrain-related data.
- Provides precompiled Linux binaries while also supporting builds from source with Cargo.
Website: github.com/versatiles-org/versatiles-rs
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Developer: VersaTiles
License: MIT License
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