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Given that Mapnik and MapBox are intertwined being able to write to MapBox and style it, set zoom layers/extent, etc... itwould be extremely beneficial to have an FME writer.
This would give the non web developer a MUCH greater ability to create on-the-fly, customizable web maps without knowing much in the way of coding. I envision it for times when a web map would be extremely beneficial for a consultant or client that wants a beautiful web map (i.e. via MapBox) without knowing CartoCSS or other web styling languages. Not that it's entirely an excuse but some people need disposable web maps that expire after n amount of time.
I'm guilty of being creative in the solution via FME analysis but lacking in web programing but it would still be an amazing ability to produce a stylized web map for clients via FME and MapBox.
+20- Safer
I don't think necessitating a link to MapBox should be required. The ability to write to MBTiles format would be very nice; but stand-alone, then the user can choose if they want to use MapBox or anything else.
I think that there are two distinct writers here one for 'raster' MBTiles
https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec and one for MapBox Vector Tiles
https://github.com/mapbox/vector-tile-spec/.
+1This has been released as part of FME 2017.0 . Visit http://www.safe.com/downloads to download it and give it a spin.
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