shapefiles-to-vector-tiles.sh

# Install Mapshaper
npm install -g mapshaper

# Install Tippecanoe
brew install tippecanoe

# Make a directory for your geojson files and convert all the shapefiles in a directory to geojson
mkdir ../geojson
for f in *.shp; 
do 
  mapshaper $f -o format=geojson ../geojson/`basename $f .shp`.json;
done

# Convert the geojson files into MBTiles vector tiles
cd ../
tippecanoe -o vector.mbtiles -zg --drop-densest-as-needed geojson/*

# Provision a one-click Docker server instance on Digital Ocean and SSH into it
# Copy your MBTiles file to the root directory
# Start the tile server with
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/data -p 80:80 klokantech/tileserver-gl vector.mbtiles --verbose

# All done