What do shapefiles do in Mapbox Studio?
A shapefile, also known as an Esri shapefile, is a file format for storing geographic vector data. You can upload shapefiles to Mapbox Studio as vector tilesets that you can use in a custom map style Shapefiles are composed of several individual files, which should be combined into a single zip file before uploading.
How many polygons can be stored in a shapefile?
Geometry limitations. There is a 2 GB size limit for any shapefile component file, which translates to a maximum of roughly 70 million point features. The actual number of line or polygon features you can store in a shapefile depends on the number of vertices in each line or polygon (a vertex is equivalent to a point).
What’s the maximum number of fields you can create in shapefile?
The maximum number of fields is 255. A conversion to shapefile will convert the first 255 fields if this limit is exceeded. The dBASE file must contain at least one field. When you create a shapefile or dBASE table, an integer ID field is created as a default.
What kind of files can you put in a shapefile?
Shapefiles are composed of several individual files, which should be combined into a single zip file before uploading. Of these files, Mapbox can read shp, shx, dbf, prj, and index files. Any other files you upload in the zip file will be ignored.
How big of a file can I upload to MapBox?
Uploads created in Mapbox Studio via the Mapbox Studio style editor, your tilesets page, or exported from a dataset using the dataset editor are subject to additional limits. These uploads cannot exceed 300 MB, and are limited to 20 uploads per month. Some file types have limits below 300 MB. See the chart below for limits by file type.
How big can datasets be in Mapbox Studio?
The size of a dataset is unlimited, but the Mapbox Studio dataset editor can only display datasets of 20 MB or smaller. These datasets can still be downloaded from Mapbox Studio and accessed through the Datasets API. When an upload is completed in Mapbox Studio, it is rendered into a tileset.