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tippecanoe
unclaimed listingactively maintainedFreeBSD-2-Clause
Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
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Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
felt/tippecanoe is an open-source project by felt: Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.
It is free. Get it from the upstream repository: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe
From the project's own README (excerpt, reproduced for discovery under its BSD-2-Clause license):
tippecanoe ==========
Builds vector tilesets from large (or small) collections of GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf, or CSV features, like these.
This is the official home of Tippecanoe, developed and actively maintained by Erica Fischer at Felt.
For a self-hosted, API driven version of Tippecanoe, contact a technical sales engineer at sales@felt.com. Felt produces highly performant, automatically projected versions of your data, and utilizes a rendering engine, built on top of MapLibre GL JS, to style vector and raster data.
Version 2.0.0 is equivalent to 1.36.0 in the original repository. Thank you Mapbox for the many years of early support.
Intent ------
The goal of Tippecanoe is to enable making a scale-independent view of your data, so that at any level from the entire world to a single building, you can see the density and texture of the data rather than a simplification from dropping supposedly unimportant features or clustering or aggregating them.
If you give it all of OpenStreetMap and zoom out, it should give you back something that looks like "All Streets" rather than something that looks like an Interstate road atlas.
If you give it all the building footprints in Los Angeles and zoom out far enough that most individual buildings are no longer discernible, you should still be able to see the extent and variety of development in every neighborhood, not just the largest downtown buildings.
If you give it a collection of years of tweet locations, you should be able to see the shape and relative popularity of every point of interest and every significant travel corridor.
Installation ------------
The easiest way to install tippecanoe on OSX is with Homebrew:
On Ubuntu it will usually be easiest to build from the source repository:
See Development below…
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05Versions
Full history →| Version | Channel | Released | Notes |
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| 0.0.0 | stable | Sep 19, 2026 | Indexed listing — see the upstream repository for real release history. |