[zylepe]

You can track progress for planetiler producing pmtiles output here: https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler/issues/98.

Another bonus of writing pmtiles directly is that it will cut the time to generate vector tiles for the planet from ~40 to ~30 minutes on a 64-core ec2 instance since pmtiles format is much simpler and more efficient to write than SQLite. It should also cut the output file size a bit from the 80gb that mbtiles uses.