# vtshaver

**Repository Path**: mirrors_mapbox/vtshaver

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: vtshaver
- **Description**: Remove unneeded vector tile layers, features, and properties based on particular style
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-2-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-21

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# Vector Tile Shaver

*Style-optimized vector tiles.* The shaver takes a **Mapbox Vector Tile** and a **Mapbox GL Style** and removes layers, features, and properties in the tile that are not used by the style to reduce the size of the tile. Read the feature release [blog post](https://blog.mapbox.com/style-optimized-vector-tiles-39868da81275) and the [api-documentation](https://www.mapbox.com/api-documentation/#retrieve-tiles) for more info.

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![shaved-bearded tile and unshaved-bearded tile](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1943001/37542004-e49656b6-2919-11e8-9635-db1b47fcd0fa.jpg)

# Installation

```bash
npm install @mapbox/vtshaver
```

If you want to install locally you can also do:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/mapbox/vtshaver
cd vtshaver
npm install
```

# API Usage

* [styleToFilters](API-JavaScript.md#styletofilters)
* [Filters](API-CPP.md#filters)
* [shave](API-CPP.md#shave)

# CLI

Shaver provides 2 command line tools:

## vtshave

```
vtshave [args]

  --tile:    required: path to the input vector tile
  --style:   required: path to a gl style to use to shave
  --zoom:    required: the zoom level
  --maxzoom: optional: the maxzoom of a tileset relevant to the tile buffer being shaved
  --out:     optional: pass a path if you want the shaved tile to be saved

Will output a size comparison of how many bytes were shaved off the tile.

Example:

  vtshave --tile tile.mvt --zoom 0 --maxzoom 16 --style style.json
```

## vtshaver-filters

```
vtshaver-filters [args]

  --style:   required: path to a gl style to parse
  --sources: optional: list of one or more sources (comma separated) to display in the output (default is all sources)
  --pretty:  optional: whether to pretty print the output (default false). Pass '--pretty' to indent the JSON.

Will output a json object describing each of the source-layers and their parsed metadata to be used for shaving.

Example:

  vtshaver-filters --style style.json > meta.json
```

# Develop

Build binaries

```
make
```

For Mac M1 users, there are a couple of extra steps before building

- Comment out linking instructions in your local binding.gyp as follows
```
#  'make_global_settings': [
#    ['CXX', '<(module_root_dir)/mason_packages/.link/bin/clang++'],
#    ['CC', '<(module_root_dir)/mason_packages/.link/bin/clang'],
#    ['LINK', '<(module_root_dir)/mason_packages/.link/bin/clang++'],
#    ['AR', '<(module_root_dir)/mason_packages/.link/bin/llvm-ar'],
#    ['NM', '<(module_root_dir)/mason_packages/.link/bin/llvm-nm']
#  ],
```

- Switch to x86_64 processor since arm64 has unresolved issues with the latest mbgl-core library
```
$ arch --x86_64 zsh
```

# Test

```
make test
```

Run bench test

```
node bench/bench-batch.js --iterations 50 --concurrency 10
```

Optionally combine with the `time` command

# Docs

Documentation is generated using Documentation.js `--polyglot` mode. Generate docs in `API.md` by running:

```
make docs
```

NOTE: we are pinned to `documentation@4.0.0` because 5.x removed C++ support: https://github.com/documentationjs/documentation/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#500-2017-07-27