Morecantile

Construct and use map tile grids (a.k.a TileMatrixSet / TMS).

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Documentation: https://developmentseed.org/morecantile/

Source Code: https://github.com/developmentseed/morecantile

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Morecantile is like mercantile (the best tool to work with Web Mercator tile indexes), but with support for other TileMatrixSet grids.

Morecantile follows the OGC Two Dimensional Tile Matrix Set specification 2.0 found in https://docs.ogc.org/is/17-083r4/17-083r4.html

Morecantile Version	OGC Specification Version	Link
>=4.0	2.0	https://docs.ogc.org/is/17-083r4/17-083r4.html
=<3.0	1.0	http://docs.opengeospatial.org/is/17-083r2/17-083r2.html

Install

$ python -m pip install -U pip
$ python -m pip install morecantile

# Or install from source:
$ python -m pip install -U pip
$ python -m pip install git+https://github.com/developmentseed/morecantile.git

Usage

import morecantile

tms = morecantile.tms.get("WebMercatorQuad")

# Get TMS bounding box
print(tms.xy_bbox)
>>> BoundingBox(
    left=-20037508.342789244,
    bottom=-20037508.34278919,
    right=20037508.34278919,
    top=20037508.342789244,
)

# Get the bounds for tile Z=4, X=10, Y=10 in the TMS's CRS (e.g epsg:3857)
print(tms.xy_bounds(morecantile.Tile(10, 10, 4)))
>>> BoundingBox(
    left=5009377.085697308,
    bottom=-7514065.628545959,
    right=7514065.628545959,
    top=-5009377.085697308,
)

# Get the bounds for tile Z=4, X=10, Y=10 in Geographic CRS (e.g epsg:4326)
print(tms.bounds(morecantile.Tile(10, 10, 4)))
>>> BoundingBox(
    left=44.999999999999964,
    bottom=-55.776573018667634,
    right=67.4999999999999,
    top=-40.97989806962009,
)

More info can be found at https://developmentseed.org/morecantile/usage/

Defaults Grids

morecantile provides a set of default TileMatrixSets:

• CDB1GlobalGrid *: CDB 1 Global Grid - EPGS:4326 (WGS84)
• CanadianNAD83_LCC: Lambert conformal conic NAD83 for Canada - EPSG:3978
• EuropeanETRS89_LAEAQuad: ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe - EPGS:3035
• GNOSISGlobalGrid *: GNOSIS Global Grid - EPGS:4326 (WGS84)
• LINZAntarticaMapTilegrid: LINZ Antarctic Map Tile Grid (Ross Sea Region) - EPSG:5482
• NZTM2000Quad: LINZ NZTM2000 Map Tile Grid - EPSG:2193
• UPSAntarcticWGS84Quad: Universal Polar Stereographic WGS 84 Quad for Antarctic - EPSG:5042
• UPSArcticWGS84Quad: Universal Polar Stereographic WGS 84 Quad for Arctic - EPSG:5041
• UTM31WGS84Quad: Example of UTM grid - EPSG:32631
• WebMercatorQuad: Spherical Mercator - EPGS:3857 (default grid for Web Mercator based maps)
• WGS1984Quad: EPSG:4326 for the World - EPGS:4326 (WGS84)
• WorldCRS84Quad: CRS84 for the World
• WorldMercatorWGS84Quad: Elliptical Mercator projection - EPGS:3395

* TileMatrixSets with variable Matrix Width (see https://docs.ogc.org/is/17-083r4/17-083r4.html#toc15)

ref: https://schemas.opengis.net/tms/2.0/json/examples/tilematrixset/

Implementations

• rio-tiler: Create tile from raster using Morecantile TMS.
• titiler: A modern dynamic tile server built on top of FastAPI and Rasterio/GDAL.
• tipg: OGC Features and Tiles API.
• planetcantile: Tile matrix sets for other planets.
• supermorecado: Extend the functionality of morecantile with additional commands.

Changes

See CHANGES.md.

Contribution & Development

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

See LICENSE

Authors

Created by Development Seed