Generating Tiles in Bulk

We offer the martin-cp tool for generating tiles in bulk, from any source(s) supported by Martin, and save retrieved tiles into a new or an existing MBTiles file.

martin-cp can be used to generate tiles for a large area or multiple areas (bounding boxes). If multiple areas overlap, it will ensure each tile is generated only once martin-cp supports the same configuration file and CLI arguments as Martin server, so it can support all sources and even combining sources.

After copying, martin-cp will update the agg_tiles_hash metadata value unless --skip-agg-tiles-hash is specified. This allows the MBTiles file to be validated using mbtiles validate command.

Usage

This copies tiles from a PostGIS table my_table into an MBTiles file tileset.mbtiles using normalized schema, with zoom levels from 0 to 10, and bounds of the whole world.

martin-cp  --output-file tileset.mbtiles \
           --mbtiles-type normalized     \
           "--bbox=-180,-90,180,90"      \
           --min-zoom 0                  \
           --max-zoom 10                 \
           --source source_name          \
           postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/db