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tony_cannistra
Hm. Not totally sure why someone would pay for this - there are lots of readily-available open-source tools that can do this easily. GDAL/OGR[0] and Tippecanoe [1] come to mind. Maybe I'm missing a less-technical audience?

0: https://gdal.org/ 1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

brendan8229
Right. The service allows one to make tiles without any knowledge of gdal or tippecanoe. The service also hosts the tiles and makes them available.
tony_cannistra
right but, that's pretty straightforward if you've got some relatively basic CLI comfort and an account with a cloud provider...
brendan8229
True. And otherwise a tool like this is very handy.
acdanger
It’s possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles, convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a three commands.
bdon
Two commands!

ogr2ogr -f GeoJSONSeq /vsistdout/ dataset.shp | tippecanoe -o dataset.pmtiles

aws s3 cp dataset.pmtiles s3://bucket/output.pmtiles