What is a .MBTiles file?
MBTiles packs map tiles into a SQLite database. Popularised by Mapbox.
- Did you know
- MBTiles made it easy to ship a whole offline map as one file.
- MBTiles is an open specification from Mapbox and can hold either raster image tiles or vector tiles.
- It stores tiles in standard SQLite tables keyed by zoom level, column and row, so any SQLite tool can read it.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect geospatial and GIS files without a map: TopoJSON, OpenStreetMap XML, Esri Shapefile siblings (SHP/SHX/DBF/PRJ/CPG), world files, GML, NMEA GPS logs, IGC flight logs, MapInfo TAB/MIF, GDAL VRT, PMTiles, DTED terrain, Esri ASCII grids and SRTM .hgt - surfacing CRS/EPSG, feature/record counts, bounding boxes and elevation ranges. GRIB/NetCDF/GeoPackage/MBTiles/MrSID/ECW identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .MBTiles is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .MBTiles file
- Drag a .MBTiles file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.