Option to encode vector tiles into pbfs

[mourner]

Related: mapbox/vector-tile-js#25

[vespakoen]

👍 Any hints on how the json should be turned into the pbf format?
Do you know if it is more compilated than string encoding the json return from tileIndex.getTile and then pass it along to pbf's writeStringField(tag, val) ?
Perhaps you can share the link to the code where it parses the pbf in mapbox-gl-js?

EDIT: I have seen the source of https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-js and realised that it is a lot more complicated.

Hope this feature will land soon so I can convert my geojson into vector tiles and load them on mapbox-gl-native =)

Thanks!

[anandthakker]

A first cut at this is done here: https://github.com/anandthakker/vt-pbf

[chriswhong]

Hi all, I just put this together, it builds a static tile pyramid of vector tiles from a geojson file, using geojson-vt and vt-pbf: https://github.com/NYCPlanning/geojson2mvt

[mourner]

Closing here — I think having the tool for that in a separate repo makes sense.