MapLibre Tile (MLT)

• MapLibre Tile format
• @loaders.gl/mlt
• MLTLoader
• MLTSource
• MLT example

A MapLibre Tile (MLT) file is a binary geospatial tile format used by vector tile services and tooling.

The format stores one or more named feature tables, each containing geometry and attributes for a tile. MLTLoader decodes these tables into GeoJSON features, or binary data when shape: 'binary' is selected.

File format

MLT tiles are typically addressed using a Z/X/Y tile coordinate scheme.

Common properties:

Property	Value
File Extension	.mlt
MIME Type	application/vnd.maplibre-tile
Container	Binary

Geometry

MLT currently supports the core geometry families implemented by loaders.gl:

• Point, MultiPoint
• LineString, MultiLineString
• Polygon, MultiPolygon

Nested geometry collections and advanced topologies are not fully normalized in the current parser.