search

mapbox / mapbox-cli-py

Command line interface to Mapbox Web Services
MIT License
164 stars 44 forks source link

mapbox upload with optional tileset #103

Closed andrewharvey closed 5 years ago

andrewharvey commented 7 years ago

It would be nice if the mapbox upload command didn't require TILESET. If ommited it should extract the username from the token and construct a random string just like if you upload in Mapbox Studio.

perrygeo commented 7 years ago

@andrewharvey This would certainly be possible but not without breaking backwards compatibility. For instance, if I type

mapbox upload perrygeo.geojson

There is no way to tell if I intend to stream data from stdin to the perrygeo.geojson tileset or if I'm referring to a geojson file by that name and asking for a random tileset.

Disambiguating the usage here would be possible but would break many user's existing scripts. As a result, I'm inclined to say we should keep the current behavior.

An alternative, if your application needs random tileset names, is to generate the tileset identifier explicitly in your script.