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Supported formats

Martin Mikita
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This is a complete list of vector and raster tiles supported by the latest MapTiler Engine 12.


Raster formats


Vector formats


Raster formats supported for input on all platforms

Format Name

Code

Supported on all platforms
Arc/Info ASCII Grid AAIGrid ✔️
ACE2 ACE2 ✔️
ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf) ADRG ✔️
Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf) AIG ✔️
AIRSAR Polarimetric AIRSAR ✔️
Azavea Raster Grid ARG ✔️
Magellan BLX Topo (.blx, .xlb) BLX ✔️
Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp) BMP ✔️
BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap) BSB ✔️
VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt) BT ✔️
Natural Resources Canada's Geoid BYN (.byn) BYN ✔️
CALS Type I CALS ✔️
CEOS (Spot for instance) CEOS ✔️
DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster COASP ✔️
TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product COSAR ✔️
Convair PolGASP data CPG ✔️
CTable2 Datum Grid Shift CTable2 ✔️
USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid CTG ✔️
Derived DERIVED ✔️
Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim) DIMAP ✔️
ELAS DIPEx DIPEx ✔️
First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq) DOQ1 ✔️
New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq) DOQ2 ✔️
Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2) DTED ✔️
Arc/Info Export E00 GRID E00GRID ✔️
ECRG Table Of Contents (TOC.xml) ECRGTOC ✔️
ESRI .hdr Labelled EHdr ✔️
Erdas Imagine Raw EIR ✔️
NASA ELAS ELAS ✔️
ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster ENVI ✔️
ERMapper (.ers) ERS ✔️
Envisat Image Product (.n1) ESAT ✔️
EOSAT FAST Format FAST ✔️
FIT FIT ✔️
Fuji BAS Scanner Image FujiBAS ✔️
Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) GENBIN ✔️
GSat File Format GFF ✔️
Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) GIF ✔️
WMO GRIB1/GRIB2 (.grb) GRIB ✔️
GRASS ASCII Grid GRASSASCIIGrid ✔️
Golden Software ASCII Grid GSAG ✔️
Golden Software Binary Grid GSBG ✔️
Golden Software Surfer 7 Binary Grid GS7BG ✔️
GSC Geogrid GSC ✔️
TIFF / BigTIFF / GeoTIFF (.tif) GTiff ✔️
NOAA .gtx vertical datum shift GTX ✔️
GXF - Grid eXchange File GXF ✔️
HF2/HFZ heightfield raster HF2 ✔️
Erdas Imagine (.img) HFA ✔️
Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp) IDA ✔️
IGN-France height correction ASCII grids IGNFHeightASCIIGrid ✔️
ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl) ILWIS ✔️
Intergraph Raster INGR ✔️
IRIS IRIS ✔️
ISCE raster ISCE ✔️
USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) ISIS2 ✔️
USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) ISIS3 ✔️
JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) JAXAPALSAR ✔️
Japanese DEM (.mem) JDEM ✔️
JPEG JFIF (.jpg) JPEG ✔️
KMLSUPEROVERLAY KMLSUPEROVERLAY ✔️
KRO KRO ✔️
NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR) L1B ✔️
Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS LAN ✔️
FARSITE v.4 LCP Format LCP ✔️
Daylon Leveller Heightfield Leveller ✔️
NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift LOSLAS ✔️
OziExplorer .MAP MAP ✔️
In Memory Raster MEM ✔️
Vexcel MFF MFF ✔️
Vexcel MFF2 MFF2 (HKV) ✔️
Meta Raster Format MRF ✔️
EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) MSGN ✔️
NLAPS Data Format NDF ✔️
NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids NGSGEOID ✔️
NITF (.ntf, .nsf, .gn?, .hr?, .ja?, .jg?, .jn?, .lf?, .on?, .tl?, .tp?, etc.) NITF ✔️
NTv1 Datum Grid Shift NTv1 ✔️
NTv2 Datum Grid Shift NTv2 ✔️
Northwood/VerticalMapper Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab NWT_GRC ✔️
Northwood/VerticalMapper Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab NWT_GRD ✔️
OZI OZF2/OZFX3 OZI ✔️
PCI .aux Labelled PAux ✔️
PCI Geomatics Database File PCIDSK ✔️
PCRaster PCRaster ✔️
Geospatial PDF PDF ✔️
NASA Planetary Data System PDS ✔️
NASA Planetary Data System (Version 4) PDS4 ✔️
Portable Network Graphics (.png) PNG ✔️
Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm) PNM ✔️
PHOTOMOD raster file (.prf,.x-dem) PRF ✔️
R Object Data Store R ✔️
Rasdaman RASDAMAN ✔️
Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) RIK ✔️
Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw) RMF ✔️
ROI_PAC Raster ROI_PAC ✔️
Raster Product Format/RPF (CADRG, CIB) RPFTOC ✔️
RadarSat2 XML (product.xml) RS2 ✔️
R Raster (.grd) RRASTER ✔️
Idrisi Raster RST ✔️
Sentinel 1 SAR SAFE (manifest.safe) SAFE ✔️
Sentinel 2 SENTINEL2 ✔️
SAGA GIS Binary format SAGA ✔️
SAR CEOS SAR_CEOS ✔️
USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF) SDTS ✔️
SGI Image Format SGI ✔️
Scaled Integer Gridded DEM SIGDEM ✔️
Snow Data Assimilation System SNODAS ✔️
Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) SRP ✔️
SRTM HGT Format SRTMHGT ✔️
Terragen Heightfield (.ter) TERRAGEN ✔️
EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL TIL ✔️
TerraSAR-X Product TSX ✔️
USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem) USGSDEM ✔️
VICAR VICAR ✔️
X11 Pixmap (.xpm) XPM ✔️
ASCII Gridded XYZ XYZ ✔️
ZMap Plus Grid ZMap ✔️


Raster formats supported for input on some platforms

Format name

Windows

Mac

Docker

Linux
BIGGIF: Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
ECW: ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 5.4) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
EPSILON: Epsilon wavelets ❌ ❌ ✔️ partial*
GMT: GMT NetCDF Grid Format ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
GPKG: GeoPackage ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
HDF4: Hierarchical Data Format Release 4 ❌ ❌ ✔️ partial*
HDF4Image: HDF4 Dataset ❌ ❌ ✔️ partial*
HTTP: HTTP Fetching Wrapper ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
JP2ECW: ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 5.4) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
JP2KAK: JPEG-2000 (based on Kakadu v7.10.5) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
JPIPKAK: JPIP (based on Kakadu) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
MG4Lidar: MrSID Generation 4 / Lidar (.sid) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
MrSID: Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
netCDF: Network Common Data Format ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
PLMOSAIC: Planet Labs Mosaics API ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
PLSCENES: Planet Labs Scenes API ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Rasterlite: Rasterlite ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
RDA: DigitalGlobe Raster Data Access driver ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
WCS: OGC Web Coverage Service ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
WEBP: WEBP ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
WMS: OGC Web Map Service ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*


Vector formats supported for input on all platforms

Format Name

Code

Supported on all platforms
Aeronav FAA files AeronavFAA ✔️
Arc/Info Binary Coverage AVCBin ✔️
Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage AVCE00 ✔️
Arc/Info Generate ARCGEN ✔️
Atlas BNA BNA ✔️
AutoCAD DXF DXF ✔️
Comma Separated Value (.csv) CSV ✔️
EDIGEO EDIGEO ✔️
ESRIJSON ESRIJSON ✔️
ESRI Shapefile / DBF ESRI Shapefile ✔️
GeoJSON GeoJSON ✔️
GeoJSONSeq GeoJSON sequences ✔️
Géoconcept Export Geoconcept ✔️
GeoRSS GeoRSS ✔️
GML GML ✔️
GMLAS GMLAS ✔️
GMT GMT ✔️
GPSBabel GPSBabel ✔️
GPX GPX ✔️
GPSTrackMaker (.gtm, .gtz) GPSTrackMaker ✔️
Hydrographic Transfer Format HTF ✔️
Idrisi Vector (.VCT) Idrisi ✔️
JML OpenJUMP .jml ✔️
KML KML ✔️
Mapinfo File MapInfo File ✔️
Microstation DGN v7 DGN ✔️
Memory Memory ✔️
Mapbox Vector Tiles MVT ✔️
OpenAir OpenAir ✔️
ESRI FileGDB OpenFileGDB ✔️
PCI Geomatics Database File PCIDSK ✔️
Geospatial PDF PDF ✔️
PDS PDS ✔️
PostgreSQL SQL dump PGDump ✔️
EPIInfo .REC REC ✔️
S-57 (ENC) S57 ✔️
SDTS SDTS ✔️
SEG-P1 / UKOOA P1/90 SEGUKOOA ✔️
SEG-Y SEGY ✔️
Selafin/Seraphin format Selafin ✔️
SUA SUA ✔️
Storage and eXchange Format SXF ✔️
U.S. Census TIGER/Line TIGER ✔️
TopoJSON TopoJSON ✔️
UK .NTF UK. NTF ✔️
VDV-451/VDV-452/IDF VDV ✔️
VRT - Virtual Datasource VRT ✔️
WAsP .map format WAsP ✔️
X-Plane/Flightgear aeronautical data XPLANE ✔️


Vector formats supported for input on some platforms

Format name

Windows

Mac

Docker

Linux
AmigoCloud: AmigoCloud ❌ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
ARCGEN: Arc/Info Generate ❌ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Carto: Carto ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Cloudant: Cloudant / CouchDB ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
CouchDB: CouchDB / GeoCouch ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
CSW: OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
DGN: Microstation DGN ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
ElasticSearch: Elastic Search ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Geomedia: Geomedia .mdb ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
GeoRSS: GeoRSS ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
GFT: Google Fusion Tables ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
GPKG: GeoPackage ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
HTTP: HTTP Fetching Wrapper ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Interlis 1: Interlis 1 ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
Interlis 2: Interlis 2 ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
JP2ECW: ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 5.4) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
JP2KAK: JPEG-2000 (based on Kakadu v7.10.6) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
MBTiles: MBTiles ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
MSSQLSpatial: Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Database ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
NAS: NAS - ALKIS ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
netCDF: Network Common Data Format ❌ ❌ ✔️ partial*
ODBC: ODBC ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
ODS: Open Document/ LibreOffice / OpenOffice Spreadsheet ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
OGR_GMT: GMT ASCII Vectors (.gmt) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
OGR_PDS: Planetary Data Systems TABLE ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
OGR_SDTS: SDTS ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
OGR_VRT: VRT - Virtual Datasource ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
OSM: OpenStreetMap XML and PBF ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
PGeo: ESRI Personal GeoDatabase ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
PLSCENES: Planet Labs Scenes API ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
SQLite: SQLite / Spatialite ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
VFK: Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
Walk: Walk ✔️ ❌ ✔️ partial*
WFS: OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
WFS3: OGC WFS 3 client (Web Feature Service) ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
XLS: MS Excel format ❌ ❌ ✔️ partial*
XLSX: MS Office Open XML spreadsheet ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ partial*
JP2OpenJPEG: JPEG-2000 driver based on OpenJPEG library ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
MySQL: MySQL ✔️ ❌ ❌ ❌
JPEG2000: JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1), based on Jasper library ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌

*partial - Depends on GDAL version and OS distribution. More and proprietary formats are included in the Docker image.


Useful links

How to overlay an image over a map
Vector tiles generating (basic)

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