In this tutorial, we will guide you step by step on how to install TileServer GL, which is a self-hosted vector tile server based on Mapbox's node.js package, on your Elementary OS system.
Before starting, make sure that you have the following prerequisites on your system:
Follow the below steps to install TileServer GL on your Elementary OS:
First, open the Terminal application on your Elementary OS and install TileServer GL using the following command:
sudo npm install -g tileserver-gl
Next, download the OpenStreetMap data in .osm.pbf format from the Geofabrik website using the following command:
wget http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us.florida-latest.osm.pbf
Once the data is downloaded, use TileServer GL's tileserver-gl-light command to convert the data into an SQLite3 database:
tileserver-gl-light us.florida-latest.osm.pbf
Finally, run TileServer GL by running the following command in the Terminal:
tileserver-gl-light us.florida-latest.mbtiles --port 8080
That's it! You have successfully installed TileServer GL on your Elementary OS system. You can now use the server to serve vector tiles and maps on your system.
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