Building a tilemap display in VVVV

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Ok, I took a closer look at Tilemill and have to say that it’s an easy and fast tool to generate your own map stylings. thanks for your deep explanations.

As a source for shapefiles, i found that: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ and was really satisfied.

But there’s one last question i have on Tilemill - the exporting:
The only Tile-exporting option i see is the export as MBTiles. The Concept behind this format is really clever and there are tools, implementations and specs on github. But i don’t see a fast way of using a *.mbtiles in vvvv.

Perhaps we should have a long-term goal like a plugin that’s spitting out textures out of a *.mbtiles database. But as a first step, i think we will reach a usable system faster, if we have a tile-based folderstructure (Slippy_map_tilenames based) like you had in your example above.

So, did you export *.mbtiles first and then extracted the single tiles or is there another way?