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Hm. Not totally sure why someone would pay for this - there are lots of readily-available open-source tools that can do this easily. GDAL/OGR[0] and Tippecanoe [1] come to mind. Maybe I'm missing a less-technical audience?

0: https://gdal.org/ 1: https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

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Right. The service allows one to make tiles without any knowledge of gdal or tippecanoe. The service also hosts the tiles and makes them available.

right but, that's pretty straightforward if you've got some relatively basic CLI comfort and an account with a cloud provider...

True. And otherwise a tool like this is very handy.

It’s possible to convert a shapefile to Mapbox Vector Tiles, convert those to PMTiles and host them in a bucket in just a three commands.

Two commands!

ogr2ogr -f GeoJSONSeq /vsistdout/ dataset.shp | tippecanoe -o dataset.pmtiles

aws s3 cp dataset.pmtiles s3://bucket/output.pmtiles

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