# Tippecanoe

Canonical: https://gisforweb.com/tools/tippecanoe/

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features. Essential for tile generation.

Tippecanoe builds vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features. Created by Mapbox, it's the de-facto standard for generating vector tiles. Supports progressive simplification and various tile generation strategies.

## Details

- Type: cli

- Categories: tiles, data-processing, vector

- Open source: Yes

- Pricing model: open-source

- License: BSD-2-Clause

## Features

- Builds vector tilesets from GeoJSON

- Reads FlatGeobuf and CSV input

- Zoom-dependent feature dropping and simplification

- Outputs MBTiles, PMTiles or tile directories

- Point clustering with attribute aggregation

- Multithreaded parallel processing

- Includes tile-join for merging tilesets

## Project sources

- Website: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

- Repository: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

Directory descriptions are summaries. Verify current capabilities and terms with the project sources.