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I can't share this data, but there are a couple of ways to get started:

1) Just use the overview tiles from the global protomaps dump (OSM source). The getting started guide can walk you through some of it: https://docs.protomaps.com/guide/getting-started but you'd want to use the pmtiles tool to extract the widest zooms from the global dataset.

  pmtiles extract https://build.protomaps.com/20231023.pmtiles overview.pmtiles \
      --maxzoom=4
Then see the intro to pop it in a viewer, or it's a few dependencies and a style sheet and it pops into OpenLayers, Leaflet or MapLibre for a viewer. There may be some extra layers there, but at wide zooms there shouldn't be much data there. (e.g. buildings)

2) If you have/find your own data, use Felt/tippecanoe to convert it.

  tippecanoe -z4 -o overview.pmtiles data.geojson



Thank you! No worries at all, I totally understand. Just thank you for replying!

I really appreciate you showing me how to do that. Thank you very much!




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