Tippecanoe, an open-source tool integrated into Felt's mapping stack, addresses the challenge of generating vector map tiles from geographic data while ensuring optimal visualization across zoom levels. A key issue tackled by Tippecanoe is simplifying continuous polygons, such as countries or census tracts, without creating gaps or overlaps. The use of TopoJSON for consistent simplification of shared borders has been historically effective but resource-intensive, prompting Tippecanoe to adopt a more efficient sorting-based approach. This involves sorting vertices spatially to maintain essential topology without excessive memory usage. Despite improvements, challenges persist, such as occasional shard gaps due to the "polygon cleaning" process, which involves resolving self-intersections in geometry. Future solutions may require topology-aware cleaning to ensure consistent adjustments across adjacent polygons. Users are encouraged to test the tool with complex polygon data to refine and improve its performance.