Natural Earth has vector and raster data. In this post, I will download a Natural Earth Raster and create MBTiles file with prerendered tiles. I wanted to use GeoScript Groovy here to show how easy it is to automate this process. Finally, we will use MBTilesServer to serve our MBTiles file on the web.

Natural Earth data is a great dataset. You can easily download it as shapefiles but I like to bundle these multiple files into a single GeoPackage dataset. I wanted to use GeoScript Groovy here to show how easy it is to automate this process.