Working with MBTiles archives

Martin includes mbtiles utility to interact with the *.mbtiles files from the command line. It allows users to examine, copy, validate or compare and apply diffs between them.

This tool can be installed by compiling the latest released version with cargo install mbtiles --locked, or by downloading a pre-built binary from the releases page.

Use mbtiles --help to see a list of available commands:

A utility to work with .mbtiles file content

Usage: mbtiles <COMMAND>

Commands:
  summary      Show MBTiles file summary statistics
  meta-all     Prints all values in the metadata table in a free-style, unstable YAML format
  meta-get     Gets a single value from the MBTiles metadata table
  meta-set     Sets a single value in the MBTiles metadata table or deletes it if no value
  diff         Compare two files A and B, and generate a new diff file. If the diff file is applied to A, it will produce B
  copy         Copy tiles from one mbtiles file to another
  apply-patch  Apply diff file generated from 'copy' command
  meta-update  Update metadata to match the content of the file
  validate     Validate tile data if hash of tile data exists in file
  help         Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

Use RUST_LOG environment variable to control logging level, e.g. RUST_LOG=debug or RUST_LOG=mbtiles=debug. See https://docs.rs/env_logger/latest/env_logger/index.html#enabling-logging for more information.

And mbtiles <command> --help to see help for a specific command. Example for mbtiles validate --help:

Validate tile data if hash of tile data exists in file

Usage: mbtiles validate [OPTIONS] <FILE>

Arguments:
  <FILE>
          MBTiles file to validate

Options:
      --integrity-check <INTEGRITY_CHECK>
          Value to specify the extent of the SQLite integrity check performed

          [default: quick]
          [possible values: quick, full, off]

      --agg-hash <AGG_HASH>
          How should the aggregate tiles hash be checked or updated

          Possible values:
          - verify: Verify that the aggregate tiles hash value in the metadata table matches the computed value. Used by default
          - update: Update the aggregate tiles hash value in the metadata table
          - off:    Do not check the aggregate tiles hash value

  -h, --help
          Print help (see a summary with '-h')