tilelive-bridge

Implements the tilelive API for generating mapnik vector tiles from traditional mapnik datasources.

new Bridge(options, callback)

• xml: a Mapnik XML string that will be used to generate vector tiles.
• base: Optional, basepath for Mapnik map. Defaults to __dirname.

Installation

npm install tilelive-bridge

Though tilelive is not a dependency of tilelive-bridge you will want to install it to actually make use of tilelive-bridge through a reasonable API.

Usage

var tilelive = require('tilelive');
require('tilelive-bridge').registerProtocols(tilelive);

tilelive.load('bridge:///path/to/file.xml', function(err, source) {
    if (err) throw err;

    // Interface is in XYZ/Google coordinates.
    // Use `y = (1 << z) - 1 - y` to flip TMS coordinates.
    source.getTile(0, 0, 0, function(err, tile, headers) {
        // `err` is an error object when generation failed, otherwise null.
        // `tile` contains the compressed image file as a Buffer
        // `headers` is a hash with HTTP headers for the image.
    });

    // The `.getGrid` is implemented accordingly.
});