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Planet ready OSM tiles in MBtile format

https://file.smellman.org/ https://osm.dbtc.link/mbtiles/

Elevation data

Planet altitudes in GeoTiff format (30 m resolution) server : ftp.eorc.jaxa.jp folder : /pub/ALOS/ext1/AW3D30/release_v2012_single_format

To get specific areas : https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/data/index.htm

Alternative data from Mapzen can be downloaded from Amazon : https://www.mapzen.com/blog/terrain-tile-service/

Or https://github.com/tilezen/joerd

Server configuration for map generation

Serving maps

Serves map tiles on the web taken from MBTiles files and style.json file (can be edited with maputnik)

Tileserver-GL

Web server NGinx is in front and configured in https with caching

MTB map creation

Tiles Generation and computation

OpenStreetMap tile generation compatible with Openmaptiles

• PC with 32GB mini for the Planet : Planetiler
• For low specs hardware : sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles

Terrain RGB, Contours and Hillshading generation

• https://github.com/nst-guide/terrain/blob/master/README.md
• https://makina-corpus.com/sig-webmapping/optimisation-tuiles-mnt-rgb-ombrage-dynamique-mapbox-gl-maplibre-gl

Map Style (Mapbox format)

WYSIWYG editor

https://maputnik.github.io/editor

Inspiration maps styles

• CyclOSM : https://github.com/cyclosm/cyclosm-basic-gl-style/blob/master/style.json
• Opentopomap : https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/blob/master/vector/opentopomap.json
• Isreali Bike Map : https://github.com/IsraelHikingMap/VectorMap/blob/master/Styles/ilMTB.json
• OSM Liberty : https://github.com/maputnik/osm-liberty
• Komoot : https://tiles-api.maps.komoot.net/v1/style.json

Glyphs

• Mapbox Maki icons : https://labs.mapbox.com/maki-icons/
• OSM icons : https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/tree/master/symbols

Sprite generation for Glyphs uses : https://github.com/macteo/spritezero-docker

See this page.

Alternative real time tile server with automatic updates

Makina-maps