---
name: "tilestache-clean"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tilestache"
version: "1.51.5-4"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tilestache-clean"
---

# tilestache-clean(1)

clean tiles from a TileStache cache

## NAME

tilestache-clean - clean tiles from a TileStache cache

## SYNOPSIS

**tilestache-clean** \[*options*\] *zoom*...

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **tilestache-clean** command.

**tilestache-clean** is used to clean tiles from a TileStache cache.

Cleans a single layer in your TileStache configuration - no images are returned, and TileStache ends up with an empty in selected areas cache. Bounding box is given as a pair of lat/lon coordinates, e.g. "37.788 -122.349 37.833 -122.246". Output is a list of tile paths as they are created.

The *zoom* option is a space separated list of zoom levels which will be cleaned. e.g. 12 13 14 15 will clean zooms 12 through 15. Many shells allow you to use {a..b} which will expand to a list of numbers a though to b. **Required.**

## REQUIRED OPTIONS

- **-c**, **--config** *file*

  Path to configuration file. **Required.**

- **-l**, **--layer** *layer*

  Layer name from configuration. "ALL" is a special value that will clean all layers in turn. If you have an actual layer named "ALL", use "ALL LAYERS" instead. **Required.**

- **-b**, **--bbox** *south west north east*

  Bounding box in floating point geographic coordinates. **Required.**

## OPTIONS

**-h, --help** Show summary of options.

- **-p**, **--padding** *padding*

  Extra margin of tiles to add around bounded area. Default value is 0 (no extra tiles).

- **-e**, **--extension** *extension*

  Optional file type for rendered tiles. Default value is 'png'.

- **-f**, **--progress-file** *file*

  Optional JSON progress file that gets written on each iteration, so you don't have to pay close attention.

- **-q**

  Suppress chatty output, --progress-file works well with this.

- **-i**, **--include-path** *path*

  Add the following colon-separated list of paths to Python's include path (aka sys.path)

- **--tile-list** *file*

  Optional file of tile coordinates, a simple text list of Z/X/Y coordinates. Overrides --bbox and --padding.

## SEE ALSO

[**tilestache-seed**(1)](/tilestache-seed/1.md)

## AUTHOR

**TileStache** was written by Michal Migurski \<mike@stamen.com\>.

This manual page was written by Andrew Harvey \<andrew.harvey4@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).