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Welcome to the Tiled wiki! Here you'll find tutorials, documentation of the TMX map format, maybe some future planning and last but not least a list of games made with Tiled.

• Contributing to Tiled - How to check out Tiled from git, compile it, and send changes back.
• Best Practices - How you can work with Tiled.
• Keyboard Shortcuts - Get to know your way around Tiled.
• Support for TMX maps - A lot of frameworks can already load your tile maps!
• Import from Image - Generating Tiled maps from bitmaps
• Automapping - The Automapping feature explained + links to external explanations of automapping
• Using Commands - Running shell commands and other programs from Tiled
• Using the Terrain Tool - Easily make sure your sand borders your water properly.

External articles

• Tiled starters tutorial by Pokefans.net (German)
• [Introduction to Tiled Map Editor: A Great, Platform-Agnostic Tool for Making Level Maps] (http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/tutorials/level-design/introduction-to-tiled-map-editor/)

Related tools

• tileset_baker - physically merges overlapping tiles, creating a new tileset with the unique combinations for any number of maps. This can make rendering the map a lot faster.
• WBTMXTool - TMX file HD/SD converter
• tmxOptimizer - Tool for optimizing a TMX map (website)
• Remex - A tool for expanding RPG Maker tilesets for use with Tiled's automapping feature.
• Map-Tiler - Take a group of "layer images" (walls, floors, etc.) and turn them into a tileset and a Tiled file. Removes duplicate tiles as it imports, has support for generating rooms, and other features. This is very handy when you create maps or levels in layers in a vector or pixel art editor.

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Currently the wiki content is in process of being ported over from the MediaWiki hosted at SourceForge.