diff --git a/src/converters/toTiles/index.ts b/src/converters/toTiles/index.ts
index 167392e6..fe9ecf93 100644
--- a/src/converters/toTiles/index.ts
+++ b/src/converters/toTiles/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import TileWorker from './worker/tileWorker';
+import { encodingToCompression } from '../..';
 import { xyzToBBOX } from '../../geometry/wm/coords';
 import { DrawType, MetadataBuilder } from 's2-tilejson';
 
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ export interface BuildGuide<V extends MValue = Properties, G extends MValue = Pr
  * @param buildGuide - the user defined guide on building the vector tiles
  */
 export async function toTiles(buildGuide: BuildGuide): Promise<void> {
-  const { tileWriter, extension, projection } = buildGuide;
+  const { tileWriter, extension, projection, encoding } = buildGuide;
   const worker = new TileWorker();
 
   // STEP 1: Convert all features to tile slices of said features.
@@ -257,7 +258,7 @@ export async function toTiles(buildGuide: BuildGuide): Promise<void> {
     }
   }
   // STEP 5: Commit the metadata
-  await tileWriter.commit(metaBuilder.commit());
+  await tileWriter.commit(metaBuilder.commit(), encodingToCompression(encoding ?? 'none'));
 }
 
 // /**
diff --git a/src/util/index.ts b/src/util/index.ts
index b34cdd91..4b61f22d 100644
--- a/src/util/index.ts
+++ b/src/util/index.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import type { Encoding } from 's2-tilejson';
+
 export * from './gzip';
 export * from './lzw';
 
@@ -35,6 +37,24 @@ export const Compression = {
  */
 export type Compression = (typeof Compression)[keyof typeof Compression];
 
+/**
+ * Converts a string encoding to a compression algorithm enum
+ * @param encoding - the encoding as a string
+ * @returns the compression algorithm as an Enum
+ */
+export function encodingToCompression(encoding: Encoding): Compression {
+  switch (encoding) {
+    case 'gz':
+      return Compression.Gzip;
+    case 'br':
+      return Compression.Brotli;
+    case 'zstd':
+      return Compression.Zstd;
+    default:
+      return Compression.None;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Provide a decompression implementation that acts on `buf` and returns decompressed data.
  *
diff --git a/tests/readers/pmtiles/pmtiles.test.ts b/tests/readers/pmtiles/pmtiles.test.ts
index 2d59acba..5ba11107 100644
--- a/tests/readers/pmtiles/pmtiles.test.ts
+++ b/tests/readers/pmtiles/pmtiles.test.ts
@@ -7,14 +7,16 @@ import {
   deserializeDir,
   findTile,
   getUint64,
+  headerToBytes,
+  serializeDir,
+  setUint64,
   tileIDToZxy,
   zxyToTileID,
-} from '../../..';
-import { headerToBytes, serializeDir, setUint64 } from '../../../src/writers/pmtiles';
+} from '../../../src';
 
 import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test';
 
-import type { Entry, Header } from '../../..';
+import type { Entry, Header } from '../../../src';
 
 test('HEADER_SIZE_BYTES', () => {
   expect(HEADER_SIZE_BYTES).toBe(127);
diff --git a/tests/writers/pmtiles/writer.test.ts b/tests/writers/pmtiles/writer.test.ts
index e1118cb3..4881845e 100644
--- a/tests/writers/pmtiles/writer.test.ts
+++ b/tests/writers/pmtiles/writer.test.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { expect, test } from 'bun:test';
 import { stat } from 'node:fs/promises';
 
 import type { Metadata } from 's2-tilejson';
-import type { S2Header } from '../../../src/readers/pmtiles';
+import type { S2Header } from '../../../src';
 
 tmp.setGracefulCleanup();