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• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• pmtiles

Historique du projet

Protomaps introduced PMTiles as an open single-file archive format for tiled data. The reference implementations carry a BSD 3-Clause license, while the specification is public domain or CC0 where applicable. Version 3 is the current documented format generation.

Historique d'adoption

PMTiles has been integrated into the broader web-mapping toolchain: official material documents clients for MapLibre, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Go, JavaScript, and Python, while Tippecanoe 2.17 and later can write PMTiles directly. The format is designed for deployment on ordinary HTTP servers and object stores such as S3-compatible services.

Modes d'utilisation

The pmtiles CLI can inspect local or remote archives, verify structure, extract geographic or zoom subsets, merge and cluster archives, convert MBTiles, serve Z/X/Y endpoints, edit metadata, and upload files to cloud storage. Private cloud access uses each provider's default authentication, such as AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for S3-compatible services.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

PMTiles turns a tiled map pyramid into one seekable file, replacing large directory trees and specialized tile backends with HTTP Range requests against static storage. For packaging and infrastructure enthusiasts, the appeal is a dependency-free CLI and a serverless deployment model with few moving parts.

Chronologie

• 2021: The official PMTiles repository records Protomaps copyright beginning in 2021.
• Version 3: PMTiles adopted its current documented archive specification.
• Tippecanoe 2.17: Direct PMTiles output became supported by the established vector-tile generator.

Related projects

• Official documentation connects PMTiles with MBTiles, Tippecanoe, MapLibre, Leaflet, OpenLayers, Rasterio/rio-pmtiles, cloud object storage, and Protomaps basemaps.

Sources

• Official CLI documentation: https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli
• Official PMTiles repository and specification: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles
• Official Protomaps documentation: https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles
• Official creation guide: https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/create