Vector mbtiles schema

[edpop]

Hello.
When a user makes .mbtiles by the tippecanoe tool, it creates just one table - tiles.
But I can't stream any data into this file because of the putTile method uses other tables (map and images), and also can't create a new file with this specification by mbtiles library.
I guess we need to wait for 2.0 spec?

[e-n-f]

I'm not sure how the vector tile 2.0 spec will help with this. If you have two tilesets and want to combine them, you can use tile-join to combine the features from both tilesets into one new one.

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I mean, there is no way to work with other schema, than this one, where tiles table is a view. I made vector mbtiles by tilelive-http + mbtiles, it worked, but pbf format is not permitted in current spec, also this schema is more optimized (one table vs 2 tables + view).

[e-n-f]

The only reason Tippecanoe creates tiles as a table rather than as a view is because I just copied the SQL from mb-util and that's what it does. If it would be more useful to have it be a view, I can change it to be a view.

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No, personally I don't see any reason for this deoptimization, especially I don't see tables map, images and grid* in a spec. I thought, that vector tiles will have a different scheme, than this and a current lib (mbtiles) should have a some option like type (pbf) or/and version to determine tables schema and some methods as putTile() accordingly.