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

# tilestache-list(1)

generates list of tiles based on geographic or other criteria

## NAME

tilestache-list - generates list of tiles based on geographic or other criteria

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

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

**tilestache-list** generates a list of tiles based on geographic or other criteria.

No images are created and no Tilestache configuration is read, but a list of tile coordinates in Z/X/Y form compatible with **tilestache-seed --tile-list** output.

Example:

    tilestache-list.py -b 52.55 13.28 52.46 13.51 11 12 13

Protip: seed a cache in parallel on 8 CPUs with split and xargs like this:

    tilestache-list.py 12 13 14 15 \| split -l 20 - tiles/list-\
     ls -1 tiles/list-\* \| xargs -n1 -P8 tilestache-seed.py -c tilestache.cfg -l osm --tile-list

## OPTIONS

- **-b**, **--bbox** *lat lon lat lon*

  Bounding box in floating point geographic coordinates: south west north east.

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

  Extra margin of tiles to add around bounded area.

- **--from-mbtiles** *file*

  Optional input file for tiles, will be read as an MBTiles 1.1 tileset. See http://mbtiles.org for more information. Overrides --bbox and --padding.

## AUTHOR

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