Issue while running using tilelive-copy and and MBTiles

[Carlos Martínez Gadea]

Hi,

Previously, I had a machine and I didn't have any troubles with node-mbtiles, however, now that I'm trying in a new machine I'm not getting through it successfully.

I've installed tilelive and node-mbtiles by running:
sudo npm install tilelive
npm install @mapbox/mbtiles

This is the output of both commands:

tilelive

sudo npm install tilelive
npm WARN deprecated tilelive@5.12.3: This module has moved: please install @mapbox/tilelive instead
npm WARN deprecated sphericalmercator@1.0.5: This module is now under the @mapbox namespace: install @mapbox/sphericalmercator instead
npm WARN deprecated queue-async@1.0.7: renamed to d3-queue
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/package.json'
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No description
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No repository field.
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No README data
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No license field.

+ tilelive@5.12.3
added 13 packages from 20 contributors and audited 861 packages in 1.401s
found 0 vulnerabilities

mapbox/mbtiles

npm install @mapbox/mbtiles

> sqlite3@4.0.6 install /home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/node_modules/sqlite3
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build

node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download 
[sqlite3] Success: "/home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v57-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node" is installed via remote
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/carlos/workspace/osm-pbf-generator/package.json'
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No description
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No repository field.
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No README data
npm WARN osm-pbf-generator No license field.

+ @mapbox/mbtiles@0.10.0
added 117 packages from 113 contributors and audited 164 packages in 2.508s
found 0 vulnerabilities

I understand that the warnings aren't an issue here. So I've continued to use an script it worked fine in my previous setup. It's this one:

tilelive-copy --minzoom=0 --maxzoom=14 --bounds="$(perl poly2bb.pl countries/ES/348981.poly)" countries/ES/ES.mbtiles countries/ES/348981.mbtiles

And it throws an error which sounds like tilelive isn't aware of the recently installed node-mbtiles package:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/bin/tilelive-copy:100
        if (err) throw err;
                 ^

Error: Invalid tilesource protocol: mbtiles:
    at Object.tilelive.load (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/lib/tilelive.js:95:25)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/lib/tilelive.js:336:18
    at pop (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/node_modules/queue-async/queue.js:24:14)
    at Object.defer (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/node_modules/queue-async/queue.js:55:11)
    at Object.tilelive.copy (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/lib/tilelive.js:334:36)
    at copy (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/bin/tilelive-copy:99:14)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/tilelive/bin/tilelive-copy:69:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:653:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:664:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:566:32)

Could anyone help? I'm definitely lost and haven't found information on how to fix this.

[Carlos Martínez Gadea]

Apparently, after this project was moved, the documentation doesn't seem to be reliable anymore. To make it work with tilelive-copy, I had to install it using npm install -g mbtiles as it's said in https://github.com/mojodna/tessera

After that, running tilelive-copy worked like a charm.