Creating a style

[ravenfeld]

Hello, I'm trying to make a style for a vector mbtiles map. I used the site https://studio.mapbox.com/ after reading the following page https://github.com/CartoDB/mobile-sdk/wiki/Creating-custom-basemap-styles.

The problem is that I have a CartoCSS style loading failed: "type mismatch! call is() before get()" && is().

All styles that are made with the software do not work. Is it the doc that is not up to date or me that did not understand how to do it.

Thanks in advance.

[mtehver]

Hi. Could you share your style? From the description I would guess one of the fields in your 'project.json' file has wrong type.

[ravenfeld]

Outdoors.zip For example the outdoors style. I would like to display it.

[mtehver]

This style seems to be created with new MapBox Studio, not with MapBox Studio Classic. CARTO Mobile SDK uses extended CartoCSS styling language, not the MapBox properitary JSON-based format.

There is no easy way to convert one to another. If you need a fully featured 'outdoors' style, you can find one here: https://github.com/farfromrefug/new_carto_theme

Instructions how to use it can be found here: https://github.com/mtehver/new_carto_theme/tree/optimizations

[ravenfeld]

thank you very much, I've already tried but it doesn't render what I'd like and some information is missing but maybe it's my mbtiles that doesn't work with the styles.

[mtehver]

@ravenfeld Perhaps your mbtiles file uses MapBox layer structure, not OpenMapTiles structure. MapBox Vector Tiles (MVT) format is a generic container format that describes how to encode layers and features, but leaves details open. CARTO uses OpenMapTiles layer structure which is different from MapBox. Thus OpenMapTiles mbtiles files will not be rendered correctly when used in MapBox SDK and MapBox mbtiles will not be rendered correctly when used in CARTO Mobile SDK.

[ravenfeld]

I did not know I use this https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker, but maybe the default configuration does not allow to display some things.

[farfromrefug]

@ravenfeld you should.use openmaptiles to generate your mbtiles. it is the closest to mapbox and is compatible with maptiler vector tiles

[ravenfeld]

Thanks, that's what I used but I'm having trouble rendering the names but I'll keep trying to figure it out.

[farfromrefug]

@ravenfeld i use my own fork of openmaptiles https://github.com/Akylas/openmaptiles. I keep only name and remove all name_en, name_de ....