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Rendering map tiles

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nvkelso edited this page Mar 2, 2012 · 10 revisions

Once you're done designing your map, you'll have 10s of thousands of tiny image files, hundreds and thousands of megabytes in size.

You'll need to publish these to a public server or host them with a service.

###Tools

  • Estimate number of tiles in bbox - Given a WGS84 bounding box and an OSM tile zoom range calculates a total number of tiles and your estimated Amazon cloud costs (orig gist).

  • Tools to convert between tile coordinates, latitude/longitude - TMS with DD, DDMMSS, geohash, and WoeID placenames

  • MBTiles - The MBTiles format makes it easy to manage and share thousands or even millions of map tiles. It stores the images in an single SQLite database file. There's also a server version.

  • TileStache - A Python-based server application that can serve up map tiles based on rendered geographic data. It’s an open source WMS server that is simple and suited to the needs of designers and cartographers.

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