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MBTiles

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ios, objective-c
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start by reading the MBTiles specification, the Mapbox Maps SDK documentation for MGLComputedShapeSource, and the referenced mapbox/mbxmapkit#3 implementation notes. Review mapbox/mapbox-gl-native#9983 for related context. Done means an iOS plugin can use an MBTiles source to provide sideloaded offline maps through the map SDK.

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Description

plugin request

An MBTiles source could be implemented as a plugin to the map SDK.

Although MBTiles is a Mapbox-supported tile container format, the Mapbox Maps SDK doesn’t support it out of the box as a way to sideload offline maps. https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native/issues/6862#issuecomment-287484550 explains the situation in more detail.

Fortunately, iOS map SDK v4.0.0 will introduce MGLComputedShapeSource for supplying tiles to the rendering engine on demand. It should therefore be possible to implement MBTiles support in a plugin that adds a computed shape source to the map.

See mapbox/mbxmapkit#3 for tips on how this feature was implemented in the legacy Mapbox iOS SDK (source code no longer publicly accessible).

/ref mapbox/mapbox-gl-native#9983
/cc @mapbox/maps-ios

Dominant language
Objective-C
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Forks
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