Looking for feedback on pmtiler, a raster-to-PMTiles CLI

[guevarez30]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on pmtiler, a small Rust CLI for creating PMTiles archives from raster sources. It can:

• Pack existing XYZ raster tiles into PMTiles v3
• Render GDAL-readable rasters like GeoTIFFs, COGs, and VRT mosaics into PMTiles
• Output PNG, JPEG, or WebP tiles
• Inspect generated PMTiles archives

Repo: https://github.com/guevarez30/pmtiler

I’d appreciate any feedback from people using PMTiles in real workflows. In particular, I’m interested in whether the CLI shape, raster options, metadata, and serving output match what
people would expect.

I recently tested it against a 12 GB NOAA NAIP aerial imagery VRT and generated a 4.1 GiB PMTiles archive with 22,208 WebP tiles across zooms 10-18.

If anyone has time to try it against their own raster data, I’d be grateful to hear what works, what feels awkward, and what would make it more useful for the PMTiles ecosystem.