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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Tippecanoe(MakefilePackage):
+    """Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe"
+    url      = "https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe/archive/1.34.3.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.34.3', sha256='7a2dd2376a93d66a82c8253a46dbfcab3eaaaaca7bf503388167b9ee251bee54')
+
+    depends_on('sqlite')
+    depends_on('zlib')
+
+    def edit(self, spec, prefix):
+        makefile = FileFilter('Makefile')
+        makefile.filter(r'PREFIX \?= /usr/local', 'PREFIX = ' + self.prefix)