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    Supported input 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.

    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
    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
    ENVISAT Envisat Image Product (.n1)
    ERS ERMapper (.ers)
    ESRIC Esri Compact Cache
    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
    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)
    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
    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
    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
    SXF Storage and eXchange Format
    TAB MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID
    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

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