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How to deploy your own OpenStreetMap-like service

The most difficult thing in this journey is to find proper way. There is plethora of obsolete, low-level, incomplete tools, obsolete docs and other things that can lead astray.

Steps

  1. Download osm.pbf files from Geofabric or other sources
  2. Create tiles using tilemaker or other tools
  3. Host tiles, using one of the tile servers. One of the most feature-rich is tileserver-gl
  4. Create front-end for map rendering. Most popular libraries are MapLibreGL and Leaflet

Note about styles

To display beautiful and informative maps you need styles. You can create your own styles, or take them from Open Map Tiles. You need to configure properly your service to use this styles

Tilemaker

docker run \ 
    -v .:/map --rm --name tailmaking-test tailmaker:latest \ 
    --input /map/your-file.osm.pbf --output /map/out-name.mbtiles \ 
    --config /map/config-openmaptiles.json  \ 
    --process /map/process-openmaptiles.lua

--config and --process flags can be omitted

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