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When forgetting to specify an input file, tippecanoe hangs

Open wolfiex opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

It would be useful to get a warning when you forget to specify an input file. Currently, the code just hangs and does not indicate that you have made a mistake.

wolfiex avatar Apr 13 '22 12:04 wolfiex

In general, Unix programs read from the standard input when no input files are specified. Tippecanoe is no exception, and it is common to use it to read from a pipe. (There could be a warning if the standard input is a terminal, though.)

Tippecanoe is essentially unmaintaned by Mapbox now, so nothing is likely to change in any case.

e-n-f avatar Apr 13 '22 18:04 e-n-f