The simple mbtiles server is a quick and easy way to get starting with the mapbox vector tiles ecosystem.
The server can serve a file built using tippecanoe.
With the "browser" option, the server will open a web page where you can view the tile layers in the mbtiles file on a simple map.
At this stage, its a "build your own" kinda deal, but I have plans to make some releases for various platforms soon.
To set up, first clone this repo:
git clone [email protected]:zellige/simple-mbtiles-server.git"
cd simple-mbtiles-server
Assuming you have stack installed and set up (if not, see here) for instructions )
stack build
stack exec -- simple-mbtiles-server --mbtilesFile your_mbtiles_file.mbtiles -b
Use Ormolu: https://github.com/tweag/ormolu
By default, Tippecanoe produces gzipped tiles. This causes a Unimplimented type: 3 error if the content-encoding header on the response is not set correctly.
Simple mbtiles uses the "generator_opts" field in the tile metadata to determine whether the last generator command included the -pC option to produce uncompressed tiles (see Tippecanoe readme for explanation). If if did, it will set content encoding to "identity" or uncompressed. Otherwise, it will set "gzip" as the content encoding.