A Python-based server application that can serve up map tiles based on rendered geographic data

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Working examples of Leaflet/Polymaps with GeoJSON tiles generated from Tilestache using Shapefiles?

I'm looking to create choropleths using GeoJSON tiles generated from ESRI Shapefiles by TileStache(or similar), in either Leaflet or Polymaps. So far reading and drawing GeoJSON from both Leaflet and ...
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Using Tilestache for serving maps to iPAD

I am planning to use tilestache as the tile server (map server) for serving maps to both iPAD and web clients. I plan to generate tiles by Tilemills and store tiles in a Sqlite database (mbtiles) and ...
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Quantum GIS Affine

I have a vector floorplan (DXF) that I've added to a blank project in QGIS using the Dxf2Shp plugin. I've been reading tutorials and StackExchange threads, but I can't seem to find out how to ...
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What are my hosting options for an app that needs tilestashe along side a django app?

I'm building a GIS webapp that uses tilestache to serve MBTiles and a django app to serve geoJson. I'm having trouble understanding exactly what kind of setup I'd need to host this. I'm new to server ...
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TileStache & UTF Grid provider is having unexpected results

I am having some weird output by the UTF grid provider in Tilestache on specific shapefiles; Specifically shapefiles reprojected from Census TIGER files. I know my server is configured correctly ...
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Overlaying a mbtiles tile layer produced with tilemill over another layer maintaining transperency

So using leaflet, I'm overlaying my base tile layer as google satellite imagery. I want to overlay another layer (Mbtiles layer) produced with tilemill over this satellite layer. I was successful in ...
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TileStache + OpenLayers TMS - Tiles are rendered disorderly

I newly turned to TileStache to render Mapnik tiles because of the caching option. Before, I was using Mapnik python bindings only and it was working perfectly. Now that I use TileStache, the tiles ...
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OpenLayers - TileStache Overlay: tiles loaded but not visible

I have been trying this since yesterday. If I load only the tilestache layer, it is visible. If I load both bing and tilestache layer, the tilestache layer is not visible. When I look at the firebug ...
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Displaying UTFGrids with Mapnik and TileStache

I'm new to using Mapnik and TileStache. The reason i wanted to use these two pieces of software was to understand the UTFGrid specification i've seen used all over the place ( examples here, here, ...
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Tilestache/Mapnik: Is it possible to create dynamically filtered layers?

I'm using Tilestache to generate two layers with the mapnik and mapnik grid providers, and it's working great! However, I want users to be able to filter the data over many (more than ten) ...
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New geographical point won't show on map

I did recently ask a question about how to add a new point to a PostGIS table. Now when I've got the new point in the table it should be visible on my map, but it isn't. I'm using Mapnik together ...
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Getting tiles from own Tilestache server to Openlayers application

The title sums up my current problem - I have installed and set Tilestache in our webserver and the tiles are accessible in browser My developer is working on an application to overlay some custom ...
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Maximum zoom levels for tilestache rendering mbtiles

I have been given an mbtiles file which contains tiles for zoom levels between 16 and 20. When I preview the mbtiles on tilestache, I am not able to zoom in beyond the 18th level. If I request the map ...
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How to enable tilestache-seed logging?

We're migrating from a working 'tilecache' server to a new 'tilestache' server. I have been chasing my tail for 2 days now trying to figure out how to get tilestache-seed to cache some tiles. I'm ...
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Polymaps / Tilestache tiling grid mismatch

I have set up a basic PostGIS / Tilestache / gunicorn / nginx / Polymaps test environment, rendering my dataset from PostGIS to GeoJSON and shipping it out to be rendered in Polymaps. That works ...
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Empty preview map Tilestache Mbtiles

So, I generated a map on tilemill and exported the mbtiles file. I've setup Tilestache, and all required dependencies. I tried the OSM preview provided by default which worked fine. When I tried to ...
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Tiles caching - Best process to update part of cached tiles

I use Mapnik and TileStache to create and cache tiles. I wonder what is the best process to recreate part of the tiles collection when some features of a dataset are updated. How to recreate the tiles ...
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How does TileStache handle cache invalidation?

We are trying to set up our own openstreetmap server. From what I read here, you can use a variety of caches to speed up serving the data. Now, once a week, the people of openstreetmap provides a ...
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Creating a Map Tile Server?

So, I've fallen in love with Mapbox's javascript API, but I'm working for a non-profit that can't afford Mapbox's hosting. Luckily, their js accepts TileJSONs and makes reference to TileStream on ...
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Tilestache cache folder permission on Apache

So, Ive setup tilestache on a remote server and the cache folder for the tiles is /home/httpdocs/stache where the apache default folder is /home/httpdocs/. I'm having trouble with tilestache caching ...