Tyler. A simple nodejs postgis maptile server

Depends

• NodeJS > 0.4.4
• Mapnik (latest trunk >r2397)
• Node-mapnik
• Npm
• Cluster > 0.5.3
• Connect > 1.1.5
• Underscore.js > 1.1.5
• node-redis > 0.1.2

for Development

• expresso

Installation

Install node:

$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.4.tar.gz $ tar xvf node-v0.4.4.tar.gz $ ./configure $ make $ make install

Install node-mapnik:

$ git clone git://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik.git $ cd node-mapnik $ ./configure $ make $ make install

Install npm (node package manager)

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

Install deps via npm:

$ npm install cluster connect node-redis underscore

Configuration

Edit the postgis settings in 'config/environments/[environment].js' to match your system. Also, fixup the few hardcoded sample queries in 'public/index.html' to match your postgis tables.

Usage

Start the server by typing:

$ node app.js development tyler_new

Then visit http://localhost:3000/. Choose a style type and a postgis table.

Todo

• Documentation
• Benchmarking framework
• distribute rendering?
• tile pipelineing over websockets to remove the http request cycle
• Authentication
• Tile Caching and invalidation