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osm2pgsql vs imposm rendering performance
Besides hardware and other software, rendering performance depends on the database, custom indexes, and the SQL in the style rendered. The style makes a huge difference, and badly written layer ...
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artifacts in SRTM contour layers processed with GDAL tools and rendered with mapnik?
Here was my problem:
No way the SRTM data is that messed up.
The SRTM data IS that messed up. The warping above is actually in the DEMs in the SRTM3 dataset (downloaded from http://dds.cr.usgs.gov)...
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Permission Denied when installing openstreetmap server
The problem you ran into has nothing to do with carto, it's an issue with your shell command, when you run sudo carto project.mml > OSMBright.xml carto runs as root, but the file write happens as ...
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Custom tile server - how to create a layer using Mapnik and mod_tile using POSTGIS db
This page has an awesome tutorial on how to create a complete Tile server using the stack Mod_tile, renderd, mapnik, osm2pgsql, and a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database.
If you already have a style created ...
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CartoCSS: labels along inside of polygon boundary
try to add this
text-dy: -10;
you can look at file admin.mss in openstreetmap-carto project dir
and find code
#nature-reserve-text[zoom >= 13][way_pixels > 192000] {
text-name: "[name]";
...
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pre-rendering for whole planet using render_list is very very slow
Firstly, that is a LOT of data/tiles you are rendering, so you should expect it to take a long time.
You need to reconsider exactly what you are rendering. If you are using OSM_Bright and OSM data ...
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Drawing polygon border on inside only in Mapnik?
Yes, you can apply an offset.
Indeed, the openstreetmap-carto style does this in CartoCSS:
line-offset: -0.9;
The final XML for Mapnik is:
<LineSymbolizer offset="-0.9" stroke="#82643a" stroke-...
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How to install everything "geo" in Ubuntu?
In my experience using Ubuntu with GIS products will not be problematic. But you should try to keep to Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu. The reasons are among others:
Cutting edge versions ...
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renderd not rendering
This issue happened due to an error in my configuration of renderd in /usr/local/etc/renderd.conf. Parts of the configuration file looked like th following snippet:
[renderd]
socketname=/var/run/...
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Merging layers from two vector tiles with Mapnik
2 years later but I've had some success doing what I think you want done using the tile-join tool in mapbox tippecanoe. It's opensource.
https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe#tile-join
Tile-join is ...
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Rendering tm2 projects?
Preparing the vector PBF tiles is the first step.
The MapBox Studio Classic is able to generate for you the vector PBF tiles (packed in MBTiles format) from any vector source (ShapeFiles, PostGIS, ......
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Render all roads with an equal width in Mapnik
Take a look at Skeletron, which is a Python tool to merge adjacent lines.
(Incidentally, I came here via your request in #osm IRC, but it would be polite for you to wait there a little more than 30 ...
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How to export Mapnik style to XML?
You can use mapnik.save_map()
import mapnik
m = mapnik.Map(1440,800)
# ... add styling and layers ...
mapnik.save_map(m, "output.xml")
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Tilestrata XML error
What you're encountering is an unfortunate side-effect of a breaking change in 0.4 of tilestrata-mapnik (changelog). When specifying the path to an XML file, use pathname instead of xml. This ...
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Link between tile server and QGIS
Install QuickMapServices Plugin (https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/tags/qms/)
Add your TMS source
Enjoy
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Mapnik on 64 bit Windows
According to http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.html, there are only 32-bit builds for Mapnik 2.2.0 on Windows.
https://gist.github.com/springmeyer/5651701 and https://github.com/mapbox/windows-builds ...
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Show both label and icon for amenities using Carto CSS
You can add labels as attachments using a CartoCSS similar to this one:
#layer {
marker-width: 20;
marker-fill: #EE4D5A;
marker-fill-opacity: 0.9;
marker-file: url('https://s3.amazonaws.com/...
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How to draw a marker with Mapnik?
You can find below a sample to do it.
import json
import mapnik
mapnik_xml = "openstreetmap-carto/mapnik.xml"
map_output = "region_map_mapnikXml.png"
epsg_3857 = "+proj=merc +...
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Using pattern styled polygons in Tilemill
You can easily fill areas with textures and patterns by bringing in
external images. You might create the patterns yourself in image
editing software such as GIMP or Inkscape, or find ready-made ...
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How to render Mapbox Vector Tiles from OSM data?
If you just want OpenStreetMap data in Mapbox Vector Tile format, MapZen provides this service for free: https://mapzen.com/projects/vector-tiles/
All the tooling required to do it is open: https://...
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how to make mapnik style raster, not just render as solid color
In case anyone is interested, the problem above was a simple error on my part - the srs for the Layer was incorrect.
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Geojson not rendered with Mapnik
Things may be different from when you posted this originally. With current Mapnik versions (3.0.10 for example), this should work:
<Style name="cities" filter-mode="first">
<Rule>
&...
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Rendered tiles look stretched
I've found explanation here: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/13250/what-is-the-correct-projection-i-should-use-with-mapnik?
And solved the issue by setting "input" srs-attribute for layer:
&...
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Using render_list to render only map extract
Try this script.
It uses render_list utility in proper way and converts geo coordinates (WGS-84) to tile coordinates on several zoom levels and generates many tiles in one round.
For example:
./...
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using mod_tile in windows
You might try Maperitve as a lightweigt source of rendering tiles as well.
It works on Windows on small and medium areas, and needs no database.
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Generating vector tiles with Mapnik
It's the other way around. Mapnik is software to render images from data. Vector tiles are data. You can use Mapnik to render images from Vector Tiles. You cannot use Mapnik to output Vector Tiles.
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Displaying raster tiles from OSM data stored in a postgis server
In your case I would recommend to set up a WMS service using mapserver or something equivalent, and then requesting tiles from the WMS endpoint.
http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html
This is a ...
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Starting Tile Sever Rendering Error: OSMBright.xml
I'm working on automating this guide so people won't have as much trouble, as I too struggled in some spots. Anyway your error is in this part of the guide:
Double check and make sure this is all ...
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Using OpenStreetMaps (*.pbf) data with Mapnik?
The world picture is rendered from a shapefile. For detailed maps, you need to put the openstreetmap data into a postgis database using osm2pgsql (not osmosis!).
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/...
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