Empty tile if area contains too much data
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Description
I have a project where I want to keep streets and buildings visible at low zoom levels. Therefore I disabled the limits with -pf and -pk;
`tippecanoe -o out.mbtiles -Z9 -z9 -f -F -pf -pk in.geojson`
Unfortunately, in case a tile contains a huge amount of data, tippecanoe does not convert this data and the correlated tile in the output file will be left blank.
For instance this tile containing the city center of Tokyo:
Did anyone encounter the same?
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Research direction
Reproduce the reported empty tile with the provided tippecanoe command and the large Tokyo city-center dataset. Trace why a tile containing a huge amount of data is left blank despite -pf and -pk, and verify that the corresponding output tile contains the expected streets and buildings.
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- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- Needs clarification
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- 25/100