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TileStream

A high performance tile server and simple web viewer for MBTiles files.

Features

  • MBTiles-based tile server
  • Minimal gallery view and map viewer for tiles
  • Support for MBTiles interaction using Wax

Requirements

  • TileStream client
    • Tested: Chrome 6+, Firefox 3+, IE8+
    • May work: Opera 11
  • TileStream server
    • Tested: Mac OS X 10.6, Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.04
    • Tested: node 0.4.9
    • Tested: npm v1.0.3
    • At least 613MB memory
    • May work: Older versions, other POSIX-compliant systems

Installation: Mac OS X 10.6

Install Xcode for Mac OS X.

Install node.

Install npm:

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Install TileStream:

npm install -g tilestream

This will install TileStream globally. If you want a local installation in your current working directory, run the command without the -g option.

Start TileStream:

tilestream

TileStream should now be accessible from a browser at http://localhost:8888.

Installation: Ubuntu 10.04

Install build requirements:

sudo apt-get install curl build-essential libssl-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev git-core

Install node:

git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.4.9
export JOBS=2 # optional, sets number of parallel commands.
mkdir ~/local
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
make
make install
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

Install npm:

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Install TileStream:

npm install -g tilestream

This will install TileStream globally. If you want a local installation in your current working directory, run the command without the -g option.

Start TileStream:

tilestream

TileStream should now be accessible from a browser at http://localhost:8888. If you intend to run TileStream as a server on a hostname or an IP rather than as localhost, specify that hostname when you run TileStream:

tilestream --host 127.0.0.1
tilestream --host yourhost.com

Usage

MBTiles files should be placed in the ~/Documents/MapBox/tiles directory, which is created at first run. Each tileset can be previewed at http://localhost:8888/map/[filename] where [filename] is the name of the tileset file without the .mbtiles extension.

Tileset filenames:

  • May contain letters (lower or upper case), numbers, underscores or dashes.

      world-light.mbtiles
  control_room.mbtiles
  PartyLikeIts1999.mbtiles

  • May not contain periods, spaces, non ASCII characters or other punctuation.

      World Light.mbtiles
  BlueWorld-1.0.mbtiles

To see the options available for use with TileStream, run

tilestream start --help

Tests

TileStream tests use Expresso.

npm install -g expresso
cd tilestream
npm test

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