Serving Tiles

Tiles are the individual images, that when used in combination with another tool (e.g. Leaflet, Open Layers, Marble, ...) form a map.

Tileserver Components

Database

Usually postgresql, with postgis

Stylesheet

opentreetmap-carto

Web Server

Usually Apache with tilelite, tilestache or mod_tile (not available in Debian).

Install howtos


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