How to create raster tiles with OSM data

Demo

In this example, I will use openstreetmap-tile-server to create raster tiles from OpenStreetMap data. You can give more information about using tiles or serving tiles from switch2osm.

Prerequisites

Docker

Getting Started

Prepare input data

You can download the osm.pbf you want. In my case, I use taipei.osm.pbf as input data which was extracted from taiwan-latest.osm.pbf.

Create a docker volume

docker volume create openstreetmap-data

You can remove this docker volume with docker volume rm openstreetmap-data

Import your data

time \
docker run \
  --rm \
  --name openstreetmap-tile-server \
  -v ${PWD}/data/taipei.osm.pbf:/data.osm.pbf \
  -v openstreetmap-data:/var/lib/postgresql/12/main \
  overv/openstreetmap-tile-server:1.3.10 \
  import

Run the tile server

docker run \
  --rm \
  --name openstreetmap-tile-server \
  -p 8080:80 \
  -v openstreetmap-data:/var/lib/postgresql/12/main \
  -d \
  overv/openstreetmap-tile-server:1.3.10 \
  run

You can stop container with docker stop openstreetmap-tile-server

Go to example http://127.0.0.1:8080.

You can access tiles with http://127.0.0.1:8080/tile/{z}/{x}/{y}.png