Under the hood: Offline tilepacks v2
summary
Mapbox reduces offline tilepack sizes by up to 40% by deduplicating features across adjacent zooms (biggest wins around zooms 12–18 and higher), producing lighter downloads and faster map loads with more storage for app content. New packs are produced via the Mapbox Tiling Service with MTS recipe-based collapsing of zoom layers; use requires SDK 11.9+. Navigation and search tiles are not yet V2, custom MTS recipes are supported but often need vendor help. Backward fallback to V1 is automatic.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and logistics
- 2:15What are tile packs
- 6:28Tile pack v2 size reduction
- 7:53How size reduction works
- 10:05Creating tile packs with MTS
- 11:29Impact of size savings
- 13:15Accessing tile packs v2
- 15:46Q&A session
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