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colonel-mercator
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colonel-mercator
[](https://travis-ci.org/mapbox/colonel-mercator)[](https://coveralls.io/github/
colonel-mercator
Gets raster pixel resolutions, and optionally snaps them to mapnik-omnivore tiling thresholds.
Also, generates "metatile" zooms - the tile sizes at which a given input resolution would be over a size threshold based on an "upzoom" (the resolution of zoom levels "up")
Install
npm install colonel-mercator
npm link
Usage - resolution
colonel-mercator resolution <raster> --maxres <float> --snap
Arguments
<raster> [path]: an input tiff to get the resolution of
Options
--maxres [float]: the floor at which to set resolution; if maxres > the file's resolution, returns maxres. [DEFAULT=NONE]
--snap [flag]: snap to mercator tiling thresholds [BETA] [DEFAULT=FALSE]
Usage - metatile
colonel-mercator metatile <resolution> --zoombreaks '[<int>, <int>, ...]' --upzoom <int>
Arguments
<resolution> [float]: the resolution to evaluate
Options
--zoombreaks [array of ints]: the metatile sizes to create [DEFAULT=[13, 10, 7, 4]]
--upzoom [int]: the number of zoom levels up at which to derive threshold from zoombreaks
FAQs
[](https://travis-ci.org/mapbox/colonel-mercator)[](https://coveralls.io/github/
The npm package colonel-mercator receives a total of 16 weekly downloads. As such, colonel-mercator popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that colonel-mercator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 66 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 22 Dec 2016
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