Tippecanoe is a tool for edifice vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features. Input GeoJSON into Tippecanoe as well as it volition laissez passer y'all dorsum a vector mbtiles file. It is a really efficient agency to visualize really large data-sets on an interactive map amongst minimal behavior upon on performance.
You tin come across the results of using Tippecanoe inwards this map of ADS-B pings inwards as well as around Los Angeles International Airport. Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is ane of the ways that aircraft study their in-flight positions. It is ane of the technologies that brand aircraft tracking maps similar Flightradar24 possible.
I'm non certain how many ADS-B pings the Planes Over LA.2 map is showing but it's definitely plenty to hold upwardly able to clearly brand out the flying paths inwards as well as out of Los Angeles International Airport.
Tippecanoe was originally developed past times Eric Fischer at Mapbox to map six billion geo-tagged Twitter messages. The 6 Billion Tweets Map is a slap-up visualization of Twitter's global appeal, showing where Twitter is pop as well as also where inwards the footing the social network has even then to attain traction.
The Tippecanoe tool was also used past times Mapbox to practise the Superpowered 1.5 Million Walks, Runs, as well as Bike Rides map. This map overlays Runkeeper routes on meridian of a Mapbox powered map of the world.
The map includes some quick links to saltation to the maps of a few major cities around the footing as well as y'all tin also pan as well as zoom the map to sentiment the pop running routes at whatever place inwards the world. If y'all zoom inwards on the map y'all tin sentiment the recorded tracks correct downward to sidewalk level.
Tippecanoe was also used to attention create A Month of Lightning, an interactive map of all 80,305,421 lightning strikes that occurred across the globe inwards May 2013.
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Rousseau was able to purpose Tippecanoe to procedure the May 2013 lightning information from Weather Decision Technologies. The outcome is this impressive Mapbox map which allows y'all to sentiment over fourscore ane 1000 m global lightning strikes from simply ane month. You tin read to a greater extent than well-nigh how the map was made inwards Jordan's weblog post, Visualizing a Month of Lightning.
