vmp4-dump

Dumps Apple VMP4 files, used by geod, GeoServices, Maps, and other Apple apps.

— HELP WANTED —
If you can contribute parsers for individual section data, please do.

$ cargo install vmp4-dump
$ vmp4-dump --verbose --dump tile.vf

Example output:

$ vmp4-dump tile-0f782e.vf

file size: 538
sections: 8

type: ChapterGlobal (0x1 / 1)
compressed: false
offset: 0x60
size: 11

0000: 47 00 04 59 00 00 A8 00 D2 14 00                 G..Y.......

type: ChapterLabels (0xa / 10)
compressed: false
offset: 0x6c
size: 47

labels: (5)
  - Kuligowo
  - Lubosinek
  - Marianowo
  - Policko
  - Żółwin

type: ChapterLabelLanguages (0xb / 11)
compressed: false
offset: 0x9c
size: 6

languages: (1)
  - /pl

type: ChapterLabelLocalizations2 (0xd / 13)
compressed: false
offset: 0xa3
size: 25

0000: 02 03 01 70 6C 00 03 01 50 4C 00 00 00 01 01 01  ...pl...PL......
0016: 01 01 01 05 88 88 88 88 88                       .........

type: ChapterVertices (0x14 / 20)
compressed: false
offset: 0xbd
size: 217

0000: 13 5E 28 44 00 0E C9 39 38 A2 38 A1 33 03 C8 67  .^(D...98.8.3..g
0016: D0 1C F7 21 3C A2 0D C2 63 32 3B 00 0F BE E3 09  ...!<...c2;.....
0032: 44 8E A6 51 2B 20 EF F9 B9 C7 70 DD 3F 2F EE BF  D..Q+.....p.?/..
0048: 9F DE E6 6D 3A 7F DF 6F DF E9 FA F6 FE FF 3D 7F  ...m:..o......=.
0064: 97 73 C3 82 FA F9 7F 3B EF E5 9C 38 7A 58 53 1F  .s.....;...8zXS.
0080: A1 7E E1 20 82 9F 01 DD 63 F9 2E 9C C5 DF 62 9F  .~......c.....b.
0096: E6 43 09 44 8F D8 7D F4 1F 8B F6 2E 74 5A C8 FE  .C.D..}.....tZ..
0112: 43 73 09 CC 05 9F 07 25 F0 2D 85 00 00 90 6C 4C  Cs.....%.-....lL
0128: E1 74 37 40 48 5E 4B DB 6F C0 E3 0E 2D 27 57 9A  .t7@H^K.o...-'W.
0144: C6 52 F9 F0 04 FF C0 A0 62 2B 7C 1C 54 20 BA 7B  .R......b+|.T..{
0160: 9F 62 86 2C 9D A0 80 F8 2D 87 45 34 74 94 20 0A  .b.,....-.E4t...
0176: 00 28 18 04 85 88 1A 7A 0D B1 EE E0 B3 94 99 F6  .(.....z........
0192: 6F DE 3D B9 6A 95 D7 B8                          o.=.j...
..... 17 more bytes .....


type: ChapterLineFeatures (0x1f / 31)
compressed: true
offset: 0x197
size: 124
original size: 75

0000: 04 00 10 00 00 12 10 25 00 22 37 03 04 01 03 04  .......%."7.....
0016: BA 01 0E 00 15 00 00 00 80 02 10 13 00 20 37 03  ..............7.
0032: 10 00 00 20 37 03 10 25 00 20 37 03 10 00 00 20  ....7..%..7.....
0048: 37 03 10 00 00 20 37 03 10 25 00 20 37 03 10 25  7.....7..%..7..%
0064: 00 20 37 03 10 09 00 20 37 03 10 1D 00 20 37 03  ..7.....7.....7.
0080: 10 25 00 20 37 03 10 00 00 20 37 03 10 1D 00 20  .%..7.....7.....
0096: 37 03 10 25 00 20 37 03 10 00 00 22 34 03 01 01  7..%..7...."4...
0112: 06 00 10 25 00 20 34 03 00 20 34 03              ...%..4...4.

type: ChapterLinePointCharacteristics (0x33 / 51)
compressed: false
offset: 0x1e2
size: 36

0000: FF FF 03 06 06 00 01 00 02 00 07 01 00 02 00 09  ................
0016: 01 01 02 00 0D 01 01 02 00 0E 01 01 02 00 10 01  ................
0032: 07 02 00 00                                      ....

type: Unknown (0x7a / 122)
compressed: false
offset: 0x207
size: 18

0000: 1C 00 05 00 01 00 01 01 00 02 01 00 03 01 00 04  ................
0016: 01 00                                            ..

Special thanks

• "iOS Forensics: VMP4 File format" by Jesse Spangenberger (Blog post)

Notes

• cargo requires a rust installation.
• Most of this inferred from the decompilation by Ghidra, IDA, Binary Ninja, Hopper, and Iaito, of the private framework GeoServices.framework extracted from the arm64 dyld cache of MacOS 14.1 (23B5067a).

Known VectorTile Section Types (MacOS 14.1, 23B5067a, arm64)

0x09 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLabels,
0x0a => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLabelLanguages,
0x0c => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLabelLocalizations2,
0x13 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterVertices,
0x1d => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPointFeatures,
0x1e => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLineFeatures,
0x1f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPolygonFeatures,
0x20 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterBuildingFeatures,
0x21 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterCoastlineFeatures,
0x25 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterWrappingCoastlineFeatures,
0x26 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterBuildingMeshes,
0x32 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLinePointCharacteristics,
0x33 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPolygonPointCharacteristics,
0x36 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPolygonPointLabelPositions,
0x3b => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterConnectivity,
0x4f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterGeoIDSegments,
0x59 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterAddressRanges,
0x5c => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTileReferences,
0x5f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterHighResBuildings,
0x63 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterDebugBlob,
0x64 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterElevationRaster,
0x65 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterStyleAttributeRaster,
0x66 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterDaVinciMetadata,
0x67 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLowResBuildings,
0x6f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTransitMZROverride,
0x76 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterCoverage,
0x7f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTransitSystems,
0x80 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTransitNetwork,
0x86 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterRoadNetwork,
0x87 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterVenueMZROverride,
0x88 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterVenues,
0x89 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterStorefronts,
0x8a => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLowResBorderBuildings,
0x8b => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterBorderBuildingMeshes,
0x8c => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLabelPlacementMetadata,
0x8d => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterDaVinciBuildings,
0x8f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPointFeaturesAddendum,
0x90 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLinesExtended,
0x91 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTrafficSkeleton1,
0x92 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterDaVinciLandmarks,
0x93 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLineWidths1,
0x94 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPointLabelAnnotations,
0x96 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterPOIMzrOverrides,
0x97 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterTrafficSkeleton2,
0x98 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLineWidths2,
0x99 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterStyleAttributeRaster2,
0x9a => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterMaterialRaster,
0x9b => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterDaVinciAssetMetadata,
0x9c => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterRunningTracks,
0x9d => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterHikingHillShadeRaster,
0x9e => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLiveFeatures,
0x9f => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterAnnotationLabels,
0xa0 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterContourLinesFeet,
0xa1 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterSupplementalFeatureIDs,
0xa3 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterContourLinesMeters,
0xa4 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterLiveFeaturesMetadatas,
0xa7 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterRegionMetadata,
0xa8 => Vmp4SectionType::ChapterCompressedPolygons,

License

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