mapbox / mapbox/mbtiles-spec

png-palette metadata and support for multiple palettes

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Description

For raster mbtiles, it could be useful to store pixel data in greyscale and apply colors through a palette. It could be more useful to have an option to select or join a palette with pixel data for any given tile query.

1. What storage and/or query support currently exists for palette colors on raster mbtiles?
2. How could the palette be updated?
3. Could metadata support N-palettes?
4. How could a palette be selected or joined during a query?

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Review the current MBTiles specification for raster tile storage, palette metadata, and query behavior. Document what support exists, then define how palette updates, multiple palettes, and palette selection or joins would work before proposing a specification change.

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