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Rendering OpenStreetMap tiles

Web resources

• Rendering (2006–)
• install.txt (December 2009) — Obsolete instructions from mapnik-stylesheets project
• How do I render my own maps for my website? (July 2010)
• Hardware accelerated real-time rendering (October 2010)
• Tile Rendering with Mapnik (Part 1 of n, where n is large) (June 2011)
• Simple OpenStreetMap tile rendering with Maperitive (August 2011)
• Boston Geographic Information Systems (2011) — tutorials on a range of GIS topics, including PostGIS and OpenLayers
• Creating your own tiles (2009–2013)
• Don't Panic: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building a Map Server (January 2012)
• OpenStreetMap (OSM) Install on Windows — basic HQWTO for Windows
  • Part I – The Database (December 2012)
  • Part II – Generate Tiles (February 2013)
• Building a tile server from packages (March 2013) — tileserver instructions from switch2osm.org
• User:Moresby/Understanding Mapnik (February 2015) — a somewhat out-of-date introduction to Mapnik
• mod_tile (2008–2015) — Renders and serves map tiles using apache (see also)
• OpenTileServer (2015–2016) — out-of-the-box open source solution
• The hacker's guide to OpenStreetmap (2016) – detailed, comprehensive guide to Mapnik internals and rendering
• How to render OSM tiles (August 2016) – StackOverflow question with a few details
• Description of the OSM rendering process (September 2016)
• Getting started with Python bindings (November 2016) — introduction from the python-mapnik project
• Serve Raster and Vector Tiles with Tileserver GL (June 2017) — running a prepackaged tileserver on OpenMapTiles.org

• Geofabrik — custom rendering in a variety of styles

Books

• OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World (UIT Cambridge, 2010, ISBN 978-1-90686-011-0)
• PostGIS in Action, Second Edition, (Manning, April 2015, ISBN 9781617291395)
• PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 3rd Edition (O'Reilly, November 2016, ISBN 9781491963401)

See also Books.

Official documentation

• PostGIS
• PostreSQL
• OpenStreetMap Carto (November 2012–present) — standard OSM layer CartoCSS map stylesheets
• Mapnik
• Mapnik Python bindings
• Boost Python

Random issues worth covering

• $libdir in PostGIS postgis.sql