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mapbox / tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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When forgetting to specify an input file, tippecanoe hangs #935

Open wolfiex opened 2 years ago

wolfiex commented 2 years ago

It would be useful to get a warning when you forget to specify an input file. Currently, the code just hangs and does not indicate that you have made a mistake.

e-n-f commented 2 years ago

In general, Unix programs read from the standard input when no input files are specified. Tippecanoe is no exception, and it is common to use it to read from a pipe. (There could be a warning if the standard input is a terminal, though.)

Tippecanoe is essentially unmaintaned by Mapbox now, so nothing is likely to change in any case.