nile

nile (n(ode )tile) aims to be a tileserver using NodeJS.

Requirements

Nile uses osm - postgis database for rendering, therefor you need a

• PostgreSQL with PostGIS
• imported OpenStreetMap data (see Installation)
• Cairo, needed for node-canvas

You have to import the OpenStreetMap with the --hstore-match-only or --hstore-all option. Nile uses the tags-column for filtering.

Install

You can simply install nile with

  npm install nile -g

Atfer that you can set up your service by creating a config file a sample configuration can be found at config/sample.json. At the startup the service searches at the folowing paths for a config file.

• /etc/nile/config.json
• ./config.json
• ./config/config.json
• ./config/sample.json

Run

You can run the service by

nile -s