How-to get "redundant tiles" into MBTiles's sqlight tile view?

Question

At MBTiles Link there is a section:

Using views to reference redundant images MBTiles can reduce the amount of space used by these redundant tiles drastically by implementing the tiles table as a view

If I have z/x/y folder of png tiles how to i get the "mbutil" to import identical png images into the tiles view? Or would I have to do it by myself after "mbutil" has done its import into sqlite? if yes are there any scripts available for this?

Answer 1

Currently mbutil does not support compression like TileMill does - the code is there, but not connected to the executable you get when you install it. An enterprising Python developer could do the wiring to make it possible; otherwise, TileMill is the main application that outputs compressed MBTiles.