MapTiler Engine Technical Specification

This article provides an overview of the technical specification of the MapTiler Engine product. It shows what operating systems you can use, what standards are supported, what file formats can be used in MapTiler Engine, and other technical specifications like HW requirements, desktop viewers, web viewers, and other information.

Operating systems

• Windows 7+
• Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer
• macOS 10.12+
• Linux 64bit Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora

Input formats

Raster to raster

• TIFF/GeoTIFF, MrSID, ECW, JPEG2000/GeoJP2, Erdas HFA, NOAA BSB/KAP, NOAA GFS, HRRR, ECMWF, Ozi Explorer OZF2/OZFx3, JPEG, GIF, PNG, GRIB2, NetCDF
• TIFF with RGB color model, partly supported CMYK
• 8bit or 16bit integer per band, 1, 3 or 4 bands

Vector to vector

• ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoPackage, KML, GPX

Vector to raster

• GeoPDF

Output formats

• Folder
• MBTiles
• OGC GeoPackage
• OGC KML

Standards

• WMTS, TMS
• MBTiles, GeoPackage
• TileJSON
• KML

Supported CRS

• Complete EPSG database + custom-defined SRS via Proj4. Over 6000 systems worldwide.

Desktop viewers

• Google Earth
• ArcGIS for Desktop
• QGIS (Quantum GIS)
• uDIG
• any viewer supporting OGC WMTS

Mobile native viewers

• Google Maps SDK for iOS
• Google Maps SDK for Android
• MapLibre iOS SDK
• MapLibre Android SDK
• Apple MapKit
• RouteMe
• OSMDroid
• any viewer supporting OGC WMTS or TileJSON

GPS viewers

• Garmin Custom Maps KMZ

Mobile applications

• MapTiler Mobile
• Locus
• MotionX GPS

Hosting

• MapTiler Server
• direct upload to any web hosting
• PHP hosting with TileServer-PHP

Hosting (Cloud storage)

• MapTiler Cloud (with direct upload)
• Amazon S3 (with direct upload)
• Google Cloud Storage (with direct upload)
• Microsoft Azure (with direct upload)
• Mapbox hosting
• Rackspace Cloud Files

Raster operations

• clipping with a cutline (pixel coordinates)
• clipping with a shape (SHP)
• merge multiple input files to produce a seamless map (MapTiler Engine Pro only)
• different maps on different zoom levels (MapTiler Engine Pro only)
• color corrections (MapTiler Engine Pro only)