Iktiles

Iktiles is an open-source tiling engine and file format designed to generate and serve tiled representations of geospatial data and imagery. It supports the creation of multi-resolution tile sets used by web maps and offline viewers, for both raster and vector data.

The system provides a modular pipeline that ingests source data, reprojects it to a chosen tile scheme, and outputs tiles in a directory structure or compact containers such as MBTiles. It supports common tiling schemes, including Web Mercator and geographic coordinates, and can export raster tiles (PNG, JPEG) and vector tiles (Mapbox Vector Tiles).

For deployment, Iktiles can operate as a standalone tile server or be embedded in applications via libraries and bindings. It includes a command-line interface for batch tile generation, a REST API for on-demand tile serving, and language bindings in popular languages. The project emphasizes performance, parallel processing, and caching to handle large datasets.

Iktiles is maintained by a community of developers and contributors. It is distributed under an open-source license, with ongoing updates and documented usage guidelines.

Related topics include map tiling, vector tiles, MBTiles, Web Map Tile Service, and tile serving architectures.