Easiest way is to use ogr2ogr to convert to pbf format. ogr2ogr -f MVT output_dir_name input.mbtiles -dsco MAXZOOM=2 This will create a directory structure with each zoom level having a directory and pbf file named according to the tile position. Or using this tool called MBUtil. There are some steps which you can follow from the github repo. After that, you can then use the following command to convert to directory structure with each tile in pbf format. mb-util input.mbtiles output_dir_name image_format=pbf where tiles is the directory name you want

In the past, I ve used the mb-utils approach. However, working cross-platform and with multiple versions of Python, it has become really time consuming. I recommend using ogr2ogr (as Aman Bagrecha posted). Here s a script that will convert every .mbtiles file in a directory. (NOTE: It deletes the .mbtile files so modify if you don t want that). import os import sqlite3 def get_zoom_levels(filename): # Connect to the SQLite database file conn = sqlite3.connect(filename) cursor = conn.cursor() # Fetch minzoom and maxzoom from metadata cursor.execute("SELECT value FROM metadata WHERE name= minzoom ;") minzoom = cursor.fetchone()[0] cursor.execute("SELECT value FROM metadata WHERE name= maxzoom ;") maxzoom = cursor.fetchone()[0] # Close the connection conn.close() return minzoom, maxzoom new_line = " " print("Requires Python 3! Use python3 from the command line if needed.") srcDir = os.getcwd() mbtilesFileCount = 0 # Counting mbtiles files for file in os.listdir(srcDir): if file.endswith(".mbtiles"): mbtilesFileCount += 1 print(f"{mbtilesFileCount} mbtiles file(s) found{new_line}") # Processing each mbtiles file for file in os.listdir(srcDir): if file.endswith(".mbtiles"): newDirName = os.path.basename(file).split( . )[0] # Check if the directory already exists if os.path.exists(newDirName): print(f"Error: Directory {newDirName} already exists. Skipping command.") continue # Skip to the next iteration of the loop # This gets the actual zoom levels needed to correctly output the sub-directories minzoom, maxzoom = get_zoom_levels(file) command = f ogr2ogr -f MVT {newDirName} {file} -dsco MINZOOM={minzoom} -dsco MAXZOOM={maxzoom} print(f Running {command} ) result = os.system(command) # If command was successful, delete the file if result == 0: print(f"Deleting {file} after successful processing.") os.remove(file) else: print(f"Failed to process {file}. File not deleted.")