I'm now using mapbox as a baselayer (has two closer zoom levels than GMaps, one closer than OSM) and now want to utilise the pbf vector tileset functionality but am unable to get working tilesets out of QGIS.
@Florian_May or others, have you created any vector tilesets yet? QGIS lets me select the shapefile(s), set the extents and zoom levels and generate the mbtiles file via "Write Vector Tiles" in the processing toolbox, but when I open the tileset it only shows a single vertical line, and also crashes out of the geowidget back to the form if I zoom in close. The file covers ~70x100m and the output is 1.3mb..
From what I can see one approach is to convert the shapefile to GeoJSON, set the CRS to 4326, then use tippecanoe to convert json to mbtiles.
Edit: mapbox doesn't like the file as an upload either, firstly it wouldn't accept zoom level >16, then "Vector tile layer has no features" (attribute table in QGIS shows 14520 features). The Z0-16 file also rendered as a single line in ODK but doesn't display the zoom/crash behaviour.