Supported formats

This is a complete list of vector and raster input formats supported by current version of MapTiler Engine.
All below listed formats are supported on all operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux) and can be converted to MBTiles or GeoPackage format, or to the folder with tiles.

Supported input data formats

Raster formats

Code Format Name
AAIGRID Arc/Info ASCII Grid
ADRG ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
AIGRID Arc/Info Binary Grid
AIRSAR AIRSAR Polarimetric
ARG Azavea Raster Grid
BLX Magellan BLX Topo (.blx, .xlb)
BMP Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap (.bmp)
BSB BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap)
CALS CALS Type I
CEOS CEOS (Spot for instance)
COASP DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
COSAR TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
CTG USGS LULC Composite Theme Grid
DAAS DAAS (Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service driver)
DIMAP Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim)
DTED Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2)
ECW ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 5.4)
EEDAI Google Earth Engine Data API Image
ELAS Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software
ENVISAT Envisat Image Product (.n1)
ERS ERMapper (.ers)
ESRIC Esri Compact Cache
FIT FIT
GFF GSat File Format
GIF Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
GRIB WMO GRIB1/GRIB2 (.grb)
GSAG Golden Software ASCII Grid File Format
GSBG Golden Software Binary Grid File Format
GTIFF TIFF / BigTIFF / GeoTIFF / COG (.tif)
GXF Grid eXchange File
HDF5 Hierarchical Data Format Release 5 (HDF5)
HF2 HF2/HFZ heightfield raster
HFA Erdas Imagine (.img)
IDRISI Idrisi Raster
ILWIS ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl)
IRIS IRIS
JAXAPALSAR JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
JDEM Japanese DEM (.mem)
JP2KAK JPEG-2000 (based on Kakadu SDK)
JPEG JPEG JFIF (.jpg)
JPIPKAK JPIP Streaming (based on Kakadu)
KMLSUPEROVERLAY KMLSUPEROVERLAY
L1B NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
LEVELLER Daylon Leveller Heightfield
MAP OziExplorer .MAP
MBTILES MBTiles
MEM In Memory Raster
MRF Meta Raster Format
MRSID Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
MSGN EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
NETCDF Network Common Data Format
NGSGEOID NOAA NGS Geoid Height Grids
NITF NITF (.ntf, .nsf, .gn?, .hr?, .ja?, .jg?, .jn?, .lf?, .on?, .tl?, .tp?, etc.)
NORTHWOOD Northwood/VerticalMapper Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab
OGCAPI OGC API Tiles / Maps / Coverage
OZI OZI OZF2/OZFX3
PCIDSK PCI Geomatics Database File
PCRASTER PCRaster
PDF Geospatial PDF
PDS NASA Planetary Data System
PLMOSAIC Planet Labs Mosaics API
PNG Portable Network Graphics (.png)
PRF PHOTOMOD raster file (.prf,.x-dem)
R R Object Data Store
RASTERLITE Rasterlite
RIK Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
RMF Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)
RS2 RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)
SAFE Sentinel 1 SAR SAFE (manifest.safe)
SAGA SAGA GIS Binary format
SAR_CEOS SAR CEOS
SDTS USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SENTINEL2 Sentinel 2
SGI SGI Image Format
SIGDEM Scaled Integer Gridded DEM
SRTMHGT SRTM HGT Format
STACIT Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Items
STACTA Spatio-Temporal Asset Catalog Tiled Assets
TERRAGEN Terragen Heightfield (.ter)
TGA TARGA Image File Format
TIL EarthWatch/DigitalGlobe .TIL
TSX TerraSAR-X Product
USGSDEM USGS ASCII DEM / CDED (.dem)
VRT Virtual Datasource
WCS OGC Web Coverage Service
WEBP WEBP
WMS OGC Web Map Service
WMTS OGC Web Map Tile Service
XPM X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
XYZ ASCII Gridded XYZ
ZARR Zarr
ZMAP ZMap Plus Grid

Vector formats

Code Format Name
AMIGOCLOUD AmigoCloud
AVC Arc/Info Binary Coverage
CAD AutoCAD DWG
CARTO Carto
CSV Comma Separated Value (.csv)
CSW OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web)
DGN Microstation DGN v7
DXF AutoCAD DXF
EDIGEO EDIGEO
ELASTIC Elasticsearch: Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch
FLATGEOBUF FlatGeobuf
GEOCONCEPT Géoconcept Export
GEOJSON GeoJSON
GEORSS GeoRSS
GML GML
GMLAS GMLAS
GMT GMT
GPKG GeoPackage vector
GPSBABEL GPSBabel
GPX GPX
GTFS General Transit Feed Specification
IDRISI Idrisi Vector (.VCT)
ILI “INTERLIS 1” and “INTERLIS 2” drivers
JML OpenJUMP .jml
JSONFG OGC Features and Geometries JSON
KML KML
LIBKML LIBKML Driver (.kml .kmz)
LVBAG Dutch Kadaster LV BAG 2.0 Extract
MAPML MapML
MEM In Memory Raster
MVT Mapbox Vector Tiles
NAS NAS - ALKIS
NGW NextGIS Web
NTF UK .NTF
ODS Open Document Spreadsheet
OPENFILEGDB ESRI FileGDB
OSM OpenStreetMap XML and PBF
PDS NASA Planetary Data System
PGDUMP PostgreSQL SQL dump
PLSCENES Planet Labs Scenes API
PMTILES ProtoMaps Tiles
S57 S-57 (ENC)
SDTS USGS SDTS DEM (*CATD.DDF)
SELAFIN Selafin/Seraphin format
SHAPE ESRI Shapefile / DBF
SQLITE SQLite / Spatialite
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
SXF Storage and eXchange Format
TAB MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID
TIGER U.S. Census TIGER/Line
VDV VDV-451/VDV-452/IDF
VFK Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format
VRT VRT - Virtual Datasource
WASP WAsP .map format
WFS OGC WFS (Web Feature Service)
XLSX MS Office Open XML spreadsheet

Folder vs. MBTiles vs. GeoPackage