tippecanoe Docker image

Docker image for tippecanoe, which builds vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf, or CSV features. Includes tippecanoe, tile-join, tippecanoe-decode, tippecanoe-enumerate, tippecanoe-json-tool, and tippecanoe-overzoom, compiled from the latest release.

Usage

The working directory inside the container is /data, so mount your data there:

# Build an mbtiles file from GeoJSON
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" ghcr.io/openwatersio/tippecanoe \
  tippecanoe -o output.mbtiles -zg --drop-densest-as-needed input.geojson

# Build a PMTiles file directly
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" ghcr.io/openwatersio/tippecanoe \
  tippecanoe -o output.pmtiles -zg input.geojson

# Merge tilesets
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" ghcr.io/openwatersio/tippecanoe \
  tile-join -o merged.mbtiles a.mbtiles b.mbtiles

# Inspect a tileset
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/data" ghcr.io/openwatersio/tippecanoe \
  tippecanoe-decode output.mbtiles 0 0 0

See the tippecanoe documentation for all options.

Images

Published to ghcr.io/openwatersio/tippecanoe.

Tags:

• latest — most recent build
• 2, 2.79, 2.79.0 — matching the upstream tippecanoe release

Multi-arch: linux/amd64 and linux/arm64, built on native runners.

A daily workflow checks for new upstream releases and publishes them automatically. The image is also rebuilt monthly to pick up Debian base image security patches.

Building Locally

docker build -t tippecanoe .
./test.sh tippecanoe