Tools

Web tools and libraries built around the VersaTiles ecosystem.

Available

Playground: Live preview of all built-in map styles — switch themes, compare styles, and explore the default tile data without any setup.
Map Editor: Draw and style markers, lines, circles and polygons on a vector map, then share the result through a self-contained URL — useful for locator maps, area maps and point maps in stories. Embeddable in other pages (repository).
GeoJSON BBOX Tool: Select a bounding box on a map and export the coordinates in various formats.
Server Installer: Generates customised shell commands for setting up a map server on Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, Windows and more.
Style-Maker: A MapLibre plugin for customising map styles — colours, fonts and language settings.
SVG Renderer: A JavaScript library for rendering map regions as SVG, suitable for static map generation on the frontend or backend.

Usable enough to try, but still changing. Don't build anything load-bearing on them yet.

VersaTiles Studio: A cross-platform desktop application for working with map tiles — open and inspect containers, build processing pipelines, design styles and produce new tile sets, without a terminal and without a full GIS. Built on Tauri and versatiles-rs. Early implementation: it opens containers, previews a pipeline live and imports vector, tabular and raster data, but is not yet useful end to end.
Choro: A modular, Docker-based workflow for building choropleth maps — maps where regions are coloured according to data values — aimed at newsrooms and data journalists. The API, UI and configuration formats will still change.
Map Animation: A browser-based editor for composing keyframe camera animations and annotations on a VersaTiles map. Animations are shared as a URL hash, embeddable via <iframe>, and can be rendered to MP4 with a Docker image. A prototype: hosted, but not publicly linked.

Generate City Maps: An interactive web demo for generating stylised black-and-white city map posters from any region.
Style Converter: A Node.js utility for converting map styles from the OpenMapTiles schema to the Shortbread schema.