What would be the neccessary prerequisites to run a map/tile-server (serving raster tiles) using an exported vector source and tm2z-styleset?
Has anyone set up a working environment for that?
Is Tessera a possible package for such a case?
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I wouldn’t see this as a direct duplicate, since my question is not only about hosting vector tiles.– Alexander RutzCommented Dec 15, 2014 at 7:16
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Reading the tilelive-vector readme it sounds like tilelive might be able to render raster tiles from vector source with a tm2z-live-package. However it doesn’t explicitly mention any rendering, which makes me wonder if something else is needed? Any experiences someone?– Alexander RutzCommented Dec 15, 2014 at 10:21
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Yes. tessera was built for exactly this use-case. See tilelive-tmstyle.
To run, first make sure that your tm2 project.yml file points at a local source (e.g. mbtiles:///path/to/archive.mbtiles), then:
npm install tessera tilelive-tmstyle mbtiles
node_modules/.bin/tessera tmstyle:///path/to/project.tm2
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Cheers. Still have to try this. Looks very promising! Commented Apr 23, 2015 at 9:05
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The "Points to local source" has been a good gotcha for me, thanks for noting. Commented Jun 14, 2015 at 17:32
Not sure if that fits to your use case, but I managed to self-host my exported vector tile source with tilelive and consume the vector tiles with Mapbox GL JS. See my answer to my related question. Styling is done in Mapbox GL format not with tm2z.
answered Dec 14, 2014 at 15:32
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Cheers! The Mapbox-GL-JS solution is one possible, and a very interesting solution for my problem. However, compatibility is still an issue at this point. The other way would be to host either Postgis/GeoJSON/Vector Tiles plus a rendering server for raster tiles. I still haven’t found a straight-forward way to do this. It could be involving tilelive. Tessera sounds very interesting, I was also hoping someone has any experience using it. Commented Dec 15, 2014 at 7:16
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I'm' confused - maybe mapbox has prevented users from exporting mbtiles since this thread? My only option in mapbox studio is to download a package of the format tm2z– mheaversCommented Sep 24, 2015 at 22:06
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@mheavers You tried to download a style (which is stored in a
.tm2zfile). Instead you should export a source. To do that, in menu pointStyles & Sources(lower left corner) switch toSources. Create or load a source and in menuSettingsdoExport to MBTiles. Commented Oct 29, 2015 at 20:04 -
@andreas bilger - Thanks - yes I finally figured that out. I think I'm confused now as to how to create a source. Is it not possible to export an existing mapbox source? I do not have any sort of GIS experience, and am not sure where to go for open data.– mheaversCommented Oct 30, 2015 at 20:23
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@mheavers No, I think it is not possible to export an existing mapbox source. (See Dan's answer to your other question) The most famous example of open data is probably OpenStreetMap. Geofabrik provides extracts in
.shpformat that can be used with Mapbox Studio. Commented Nov 1, 2015 at 14:30
tileserver-gl-light is also a recommended server from osm2vectortiles.org
