Mesh data as vector tilesets

[JackReevesEyre-NOAA]

Purpose: Testing out ways to visualize STOFS data on its native mesh.

Context: Last year, I used Mapbox and it's online "tiling service" to convert a geojson file to vector tile set. But the online version has size limits (for free tier) and Mapbox is not fully open source.

Solution: This repo contains (messy) code to replicate the Mapbox process using open source tools that can be run locally (or on a self-administered cloud system).

Methods:

1. Subset netCDF file and convert to geojson (maine_geojson.py)
2. Convert geojson to mapbox tileset (tippecanoe; sample commands in README.md)
3. Serve tileset (serve_mbt.py)
4. Display on web broswer (mbt_view.html)

Access: @pmav99 and @tomsail -- I've added you as collaborators to the repo. Anyone else - please let me know if you want to take a look.

[pmav99]

Thank you jack. Interesting work. For the record, on step 2, this is what I needed to do to get it to work:

tippecanoe -zg -o stofs_2d_glo.20251005.t12z.fields.cwl.mbt --drop-densest-as-needed stofs_2d_glo.20251005.t12z.fields.cwl.geojson