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Tippecanoe vs Martin: catalog facts
Tippecanoe	Martin

Best for: Preparing large geographic datasets as vector tiles for web maps	Best for: Self-hosting vector map tiles for your own web or mobile maps
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source, developed under the MapLibre organisation.
Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Handles very large GeoJSON collections Produces vector tiles for many zoom levels Actively maintained repository	Serves tiles from PostGIS, MBTiles and PMTiles Includes tile generation and MBTiles tooling Lightweight server that is quick to deploy Active project under the MapLibre organisation
Command line only, with no graphical interface Requires some knowledge of map tiles and GIS data	Needs some GIS and server knowledge to set up A backend only, with no map viewer for end users
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Tippecanoe github.com/felt/tippecanoe Catalog checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Martin github.com/maplibre/martin Catalog checked September 23, 2026

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