Install Docker

This toolkit uses Docker to generate vectortiles from PostGIS database in order to use tippecanoe tool. So, please install Docker in your computer.

Docker Desktop on Windows

See official webpage to install it.

  • Please make sure you selected Linux container(Windows container is incorrect!)
  • Please enable your Hyper-V in your computer.

Docker Desktop on MacOS

See official webpage to install it by Homebrew.

brew search docker
brew cask install docker

Docker on Ubuntu

See official webpage to install it.

However, if it is Linux, you don’t actually need to install Docker. You can directly install tippecanoe on ubuntu to use these tools.