How to get the text labels in a raster tile in OpenMapTiles?

Question

I'd like to use OpenMapTiles to generate training data for a text recognition task. So, I need to have the corresponding text labels in a raster tile, preferably with their location on the image, stored in a separate file in text format. How can I do this with OpenMapTiles?

Answer 1

You can use mapbox tiles and extract features from it using

1. Get all the layers having "type":"symbol"

2. Define a bounding box var bbox= [[x,y] ,[x,y]];

3. Query features from tiles with layer having all the layer extracted from step 1 var features = map.queryRenderedFeatures(e.point, { layers: ['place-town'] });

   refer https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/queryrenderedfeatures/example 4.Extract geometry and property->name and store in file.

Note:You may need to perform this task various times for the large area. You may have to stick to one zlevel of map to get data as the data can be varied according to zoom level due to styling and less data fetched at higher zoom level as 6,7 to reduce tile size.

Then use mapbox rater tiles text recognition task as they use osm data, Or use openstreet raster tiles but data can differ according to styling as well.

Other approach can be to download osm files from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm,dump it in database the query it according to bounding bbox. Steps for this can be easily be found

Answer 2

Use tileserver-GL to serve the mbtiles and you can get raster tile endpoint otherwise use tilehosting.com which is openmaptiles open street map it has raster endpoint URL too. Other options are using tilestrata with plugins but it requires mapnik

Answer 3

You need just labels then convert the mbtiles to GEOJSON with OGR2OGR. or tippecanoe by mapbox