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The MapTiler is a software dedicated to generating map tiles from an image. It supports both raster and vector files on input and generates output in raster formats. It can be controlled using graphical user interface as well as through a command-line.

History
The first version of MapTiler has been developed during Google Summer of Code 2008 by Petr Přidal and released under MIT license. It was a successor of GDAL2Tiles command-line utility.

Currently, the software is developed by Klokan Technologies GmbH.

Functionality
MapTiler is available in GUI and command-line version. GUI version has a simple interface which guides the user through the process of loading an image, selecting a coordinate system, geolocating the image and selecting the output format.

As an input, MapTiler supports images in raster format like JPG, PNG, GIF or GeoTIFF as well as Geospatial PDFs with vector graphic. Higher versions of software support working with multiple images and their stitching.

There is a large number of supported geographic coordinate systems including national coordinate systems or users can load their own systems. Geolocation can be done visually by selecting at least three referencing points on the image and in the map, loaded from an external file or defined by latitude and longitude. It is also possible to render an image into tiles without setting coordinate system and geolocation, which can be used for presenting very detailed scans of paintings on the web. In the last step before rendering, user select number of zoom levels for the output map.

As an output, there is a support for MBTiles, GeoPackage and folder with HTML and JavaScript files, which can run from any web server. The output can be used as an image overlay on Google Maps or Google Earth. Final maps can be presented using API or stand-alone slippy map on a website. Default viewer supports displaying the map in Leaflet, OpenLayers, WebGL Earth or MapBoxJS. When running from a web server, it provides map services in TileJSON, WMTS and XYZ protocols. MapTiler supports direct upload to the cloud services Amazon S3 and Google Storage.

Usage
The area of application of MapTiler ranges from archeology, precision agriculture, work with historic maps aerial photography, satellite imagery to military and other fields of human activity.

GeoEditor
MapTiler GeoEditor is a standalone application for vectorizing rendered maps. It is available as a mobile app for Android and iOS or using web interface. MapTiler GeoEditor allows drawing points, lines and polygons and supports multiple vector file formats for export and import. It has also inbuilt integration with Google Drive for saving and loading data.