TILESTACHE-CLEAN(1)

📦 version 1.51.14, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 tilestache-clean — the girlies' guide to yeeting tiles 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for tilestache-clean(1), and lemme tell you, this lil command is the broom of the TileStache world 🧹✨ she does one thing and she does it well.

✨ NAME ✨

tilestache-clean — clean tiles from a TileStache cache 🫧

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

tilestache-clean [options] zoom...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This manual page is the brief lil rundown of the tilestache-clean command, no cap.

tilestache-clean is what you reach for when you need to clean tiles out of a TileStache cache. That's the whole vibe. 💅

She cleans a single layer in your TileStache configuration — and listen, no images are returned, like none, zero, nada. What you get instead is TileStache ending up with an empty cache in the selected areas. So it's giving "spring cleaning" not "here's your picture". 🧼

The bounding box gets handed over as a pair of lat/lon coordinates, like this:

37.788 -122.349 37.833 -122.246

And the output? It's a list of tile paths as they are created. cute little receipts, one by one 🧾

Now the zoom option — she is a space separated list of zoom levels that are gonna get cleaned. So like, 12 13 14 15 will clean zooms 12 through 15. And fun fact: many shells let you use {a..b} which expands into a list of numbers from a through to b, so you don't gotta type 'em all out, iykyk 🌈

zoom is REQUIRED. not optional, not "later", required. periodt.

🌸 REQUIRED OPTIONS 🌸

Like the name says, these aren't suggestions, bestie. bring all three or go home.

  • -c, --config file — Path to the configuration file. Required.
  • -l, --layer layer — Layer name from the configuration. "ALL" is a ✨special value✨ that will clean all layers in turn. But heads up: if you have an actual real-life layer literally named "ALL", then use "ALL LAYERS" instead. plot twist 🎭 Required.
  • -b, --bbox south west north east — Bounding box in floating point geographic coordinates. Required.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the extra lil toppings, get you some 🍓

  • -h, --help — Show a summary of the options. your bestie when you're lost 🫶
  • -p, --padding padding — Extra margin of tiles to add around the bounded area. Default value is 0 (so like, no extra tiles at all, she's precise).
  • -e, --extension extension — Optional file type for rendered tiles. Default value is 'png'. classic. 👑
  • -f, --progress-file file — Optional JSON progress file that gets written on each iteration, so you don't have to pay close attention 👀 (she'll keep the notes for you, main character behavior fr).
  • -q — Suppress chatty output. And ngl, --progress-file works so well with this combo. 🤫
  • -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. This overrides --bbox and --padding. yeah she said what she said 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 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 — sharing is caring, bestie ✨).

and that's the whole page, you ate that 💅 this was the TILESTACHE-CLEAN(1) page from Sep 23, 2012, straight outta the General Commands Manual — go forth and clean some tiles, queen 👑🌸
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