This application was intended to make offline maps easier, generating all the tilesets you may need to serve to your apps. We all know, not all map frameworks/libraries use or prefer the same tileset scheme for offline loading. In some applications we need our tiles in ZXY folders, sometimes we need it in specific package formats like .mbtiles or .mmpk. So to mitigate this problem, this script can automatically generate basemaps for most of the tiling schemes out there, based on any given area of interest.
It works by scanning all shapefiles in the shapefiles folder and requesting your desired ArcGIS Map Server with all the geometries it found in the aforementioned directory as areas of interest for the cache generation process. After downloading all the resulting .tpk files, it organizes everything in folders inside the tiles directory, according to the desired tile format.
First of all, you need to create two environment variables: TILESET_GENERATOR_USERNAME and TILESET_GENERATOR_PASSWORD to store your desired ArcGIS account credentials. Later on, create a shapefile folder (in the same path where main.py is located) containing all the shapefiles you need to use as areas of interest. After that, just run:
python3 main.py
and wait for the execution of the process.
- Python: 3.5
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