If you want to render more than one set of tiles from one server you can - just add another section like “” with a different name referring to a different map style. You can change “” and “URI=/hot/” as well if you like. The location of the XML file “/home/accountname/src/openstreetmap-carto/mapnik.xml” will need to be changed to the actual location on your system. XML=/home/accountname/src/openstreetmap-carto/mapnik.xml Debian doesn’t come with “sudo” by default, so we’ll need to log on as root to do the first part: In order to build these components, a variety of dependencies need to be installed first.

If you have got other versions of some software already installed (perhaps you upgraded from an earlier version, or you set up some PPAs to load from) then you may need to make some adjustments. Debian 11 hasn’t been released yet, so of course things may change. These instructions are have been written and tested against a newly-installed Debian 11 Testing server. Thanks to the work done by the Debian maintainers to incorporate the latest versions of these packages into Debian 11, these instructions are somewhat shorter than previous versions. Mapnik is the software library that does the actual rendering and is used by renderd. Renderd provides a priority queueing system for different sorts of requests to manage and smooth out the load from rendering requests. Mod_tile is an apache module that serves cached tiles and decides which tiles need re-rendering - either because they are not yet cached or because they are outdated. It consists of 5 main components: mod_tile, renderd, mapnik, osm2pgsql and a postgresql/postgis database.

This tutorial describes the most standard version that is similar to that used on the main tile servers. As so often with OpenStreetMap, there are many ways to achieve this goal and nearly all of the components have alternatives that have various specific advantages and disadvantages. The OSM tile server stack is a collection of programs and libraries that work together to create a tile server. These step-by-step instructions were written for Debian Linux 11 testing (bullseye), and were tested in November 2020.

This page describes how to install, setup and configure all the necessary software to operate your own tile server.

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