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| 22 | 2021-02-03 | [Serving map tiles from SQLite with MBTiles and datasette-tiles](https://simonwillison.net/2021/Feb/4/datasette-tiles/). [datasette-tiles](https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-tiles) is a new plugin that adds a tile server to Datasette, serving map tiles from databases that conform to [the MBTiles specification](https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec). [download-tiles](https://datasette.io/tools/download-tiles) is a tool for building these databases, and [datasette-basemap](https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-basemap) is a plugin that bundles a 22MB SQLite database with OpenStreetMap tiles covering zoom levels 0-6 for the entire world. |