Mapbox Vector Tiles

data format for storing and transmitting map data

Class type of: vector tile Q110613565

Facts

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Instance of: data format, file format, free format, OSM vector tile provider^[2]^[3]^[4]
Official website: docs.mapbox.com^[11]
Based on: Protocol Buffers^[6]
Subclass of: vector tile^[9]
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported^[8]
Copyright status: copyrighted^[16]
Derivative work: Mapbox Streets^[15]
Developer: Mapbox^[7]
Different from: MBTiles^[14]
File extension: mvt^[13]
Imported from: wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Media type: application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile^[12]
Named after: Mapbox^[5]
Software version identifier: 1.0.0^[10]

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en Mapbox Vector Tiles en MVT zh Mapbox向量圖磚

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Source code repository URL: github.com
Work available at URL: github.com

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Summary

Mapbox Vector Tiles is a data format^[1].

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — instance of (P31): file format. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — instance of (P31): free format. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — instance of (P31): OSM vector tile provider. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — named after (P138): Mapbox. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — based on (P144): Protocol Buffers. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — developer (P178): Mapbox. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — copyright license (P275): Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported. github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — subclass of (P279): vector tile. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — software version identifier (P348): 1.0.0. github.com. Retrieved 2023-03-19. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — official website (P856): https://docs.mapbox.com/data/tilesets/guides/vector-tiles-standards/. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — media type (P1163): application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile. github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — file extension (P1195): mvt. wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — different from (P1889): MBTiles. wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — derivative work (P4969): Mapbox Streets. wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles — copyright status (P6216): copyrighted. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ Mapbox Vector Tiles is an instance of data format (Q494823) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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