Feature request: integrate tilesets-cli with GDAL/OGR tools

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, data-engineering

Research direction

Start by reviewing the tilesets-cli upload pipeline and the proposed ogr2ogr integration described in the issue. Compare the requested GeoPackage, shapefile, FGDB, SQLite, and PostGIS sources with the current GeoJSON-only workflow; done means supported sources can be uploaded without manual GeoJSON conversion.

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Description

As a user I would like to be able to upload large datasets directly from different data sources without converting them to GeoJSON. It would be great if I could use a GeoPackage, shapefile, FGDB, SQLite or even PostGIS as the upload data source. GeoJSON is quite inefficient especially with large datasets.

One option might be to integrate the tilesets-cli pipeline with ogr2ogr, which is an open source ETL CLI tool for converting data, supporting a huge number of vector datasets out of the box.

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