TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by open source technology. Installation instructions, development docs and other information are available on the TileMill website.
- Mapnik v2.2.0
- Node.js v0.8.x or v0.10.x
- Protobuf: libprotobuf-lite and protoc
For details follow:
Install mocha and run the tests
npm install mocha
npm test
Note: the tests require a running postgres server and a postgis enabled
database called template_postgis.
If you do not have a template_postgis create one like:
POSTGIS_VERSION="1.5" # you may need to change this
POSTGIS_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib/postgis-$POSTGIS_VERSION
createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/postgis.sql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/spatial_ref_sys.sql
For more info see: http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ch02.html
TileMill documentation is kept in the gh-pages branch, which is independently managed and not merged with master.
TileMill's in-app reference available as the "Manual" is a very small subset of docs for offline usage and is manually sync'ed from the gh-pages branch.
To view all the TileMill documentation locally, first checkout the gh-pages branch:
git checkout gh-pages
Then install Jekyll:
sudo gem install jekyll
And run Jekyll:
jekyll
Once Jekyll has started you should be able to view the docs in a browser at:
http://localhost:4000/tilemill/
To sync the manual with gh-pages updates do:
export TILEMILL_SOURCES=`pwd`
cd ../
git clone --depth=1 -b gh-pages https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill tilemill-gh-pages
cd ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}
export TILEMILL_GHPAGES=../tilemill-gh-pages
rm -rf ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual
mkdir -p ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual
cp -r ${TILEMILL_GHPAGES}/assets/manual/* ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual/
rm -rf ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference
mkdir -p ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference
cp -r ${TILEMILL_GHPAGES}/_posts/docs/reference/* ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference/