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

# tilestache-seed(1)

seed a single layer in your TileStache configuration

## NAME

tilestache-seed - seed a single layer in your TileStache configuration

## SYNOPSIS

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

## DESCRIPTION

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

**tilestache-seed** seeds a single layer in your TileStache configuration. No images are returned, but TileStache ends up with a pre-filled 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.\
 Configuration, BBox, and Layer options are required.

## REQUIRED OPTIONS

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

  Path to configuration file. **Required**.

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

  Layer name from configuration. **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" for most image layers and some variety of JSON for Vector or Mapnik Grid providers.

- **-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**

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

- **-d, --output-directory**

  Optional output directory for tiles, to override configured cache with the equivalent of:\
       {"name": "Disk", "path": \<output directory\>, "dirs": "portable", "gzip": \[\]}.

  More information in http://tilestache.org/doc/#caches.

- **--to-mbtiles**

  Optional output file for tiles, will be created as an MBTiles 1.1 tileset. See http://mbtiles.org for more information.

- **--from-mbtiles**

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

- **--to-s3**

  Optional output bucket for tiles, will be populated with tiles in a standard Z/X/Y layout. Three required arguments: AWS access-key, secret, and bucket name.

- **--tile-list**

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

- **--error-list**

  Optional file of failed tile coordinates, a simple text list of Z/X/Y coordinates. If provided, failed tiles will be logged to this file instead of stopping tilestache-seed.

- **--enable-retries**

  If true this will cause tilestache-seed to retry failed tile renderings up to (3) times. Default value is False.

- **-x, --ignore-cached**

  Re-render every tile, whether it is in the cache already or not.

- **--jsonp-callback**

  Add a JSONP callback for tiles with a json mime-type, causing "\*.js" tiles to be written to the cache wrapped in the callback function. Ignored for non-JSON tiles.

## SEE ALSO

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

## AUTHOR

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

This manual page was written by David Paleino \<dapal@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).