mapback-rs is a minimalistic command-line tool designed to generate unzoomed level images from map tiles organized in a quadtree structure.

To install mapback-rs, you need to have Rust and Cargo installed on your system. If you don't have them installed, please follow the official installation guide: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

Once you have Rust and Cargo set up, you can install mapback-rs by running the following command:

cargo install mapback-rs

This will download and compile the mapback-rs package from crates.io and install it in your Cargo binary directory.

To use mapback-rs, run the following command:

mapback-rs <folder>

Replace <folder> with the path to the folder containing your map tile images.

• --max-zoom <level>: Specifies the most detailed zoom level to consider. Default is 18.
• --min-zoom <level>: Specifies the least detailed zoom level to consider. Default is 0.

mapback-rs ../map_tiles --max-zoom 16 --min-zoom 10

This command will process the map tiles in the ../map_tiles folder, starting from zoom level 16 and unzooming until zoom level 10.

The map tile images should be organized in the following quadtree structure:

<folder>
├── <zoom_level>
│   ├── <x>
│   │   ├── <y>.png
│   │   └── ...
│   └── ...
└── ...

• <folder>: The root folder containing the map tile images.
• <zoom_level>: The zoom level directory (e.g., 16, 15, 14, etc.).
• <x>: The X-coordinate directory.
• <y>.png: The map tile image file, where <y> represents the Y-coordinate.

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