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How to get a shapefile into TileMill 2

Getting the shapefile onto your computer

You probably already have a shapefile. If not, I downloaded one from Natural Earth:

$ curl -L -O http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.zip

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// Bounding box of our TMS that define our area of interest
var bbox = [-600000, -300000, 1300000, 1600000];

// Resolutions of our TMS that the tiles will be displayed at calculated so
// that at resolution 0 the bounds fit one 256x256 tile: (maxx - minx)/256
var res = [7421.875, 3710.9375, 1855.46875, 927.734375];

// Define the Proj4Leaflet coordinate reference system base on British National Grid
var crs = L.CRS.proj4js(
    'EPSG:27700',