How to filter .pmtiles for a subset of layers?

[FelixHarvey]

The daily basemaps are a great starting point for many projects, and there is clear guidance on how to filter for sub pyramids of those tiles using the pmtiles extract command.

I'm wondering if there is any guidance on how to filter for specific layers of a .pmtiles archive? Obviously it depends what tile format you're using, but I think 90% of use cases could be covered by .mvt tiles.

There is already a feature request on the go-pmtiles repo (protomaps/go-pmtiles#164), but discussion has stalled, just wondering if anyone has any other ideas or suggestions?

[bdon]

Right now the pmtiles extract command does not do any operations within tiles, because it works generically for any type of vector/raster archive. If you need only some layers from the basemaps specifically you could modify the basemaps Java code to generate only certain layers, this should be pretty fast for small areas.

[FelixHarvey]

Thanks Brandon!