Creating Shortbread Vector Tiles

Tile creation workflows

PBF → Vector tiles

Software:

• tilemaker (Tutorial)
• Planetiler (Tutorial)

PBF → DB → Vector tiles

Software PBF → PostGIS:

• osm2pgsql (Tutorial)

Software PostGIS → Vector tiles:

• BBOX (Tutorial)
• Tilekiln (Tutorial)

Tile storage

There are multiple options to store vector tiles:

• Files / S3
• MBTiles (requires tile service for serving)
• PMTiles
• DB cache (requires tile service for serving)
• No storage - live generated tiles