Tile Server Demo Site

This simple map displays tiles of a tile server and is intended as an replacement for slippymap.html which is part of the mod_tile Debian package.

Features

• Overlays: This map supports overlays, i.e. transparent raster tile layers.
• Privacy: All assets are retrieved from the same host, no personal information is leaked to CDN providers.
• Permalink: When panning or zooming the map, the URL will be updated in the address bar of your browser (works not if this site is called via a file:// URL). Permalink includes centre of the map, zoom level, base layer and overlays
• Easy configurable for sysadmins: The list of layers can be configured during deployment. No NodeJS is required, you just need GNU Awk and Make.
• Marker: You can add &markers=9,49 to the hash part of the URL in order to add marker at 9 °E, 49 °N. Users can also set a marker or remove it without editing the URL.
• Context menu: The context menu of the map offers access to the URL of the tiles, to submit tiles as dirty and to get details about the tile from mod_tile. The context menu can be disabled.

Installation

The installation requires GNU Awk (usually known as gawk).

Create a copy of settings.js.sample called settings.js:

cp settings.js.sample settings.js

Adapt the available tile layers in settings.js. The demo site supports both basemaps and overlay layers.

After customizing your installation, run build the final map.js file. It is build by including the settings from settings.js in the template file map-src.js:

make

Copy the contents of this directory to the document root of your webserver. The files map-src.js, settings.js, import.awk and Makefile are not required on the web server.

License

This project is published under the terms of the BSD 2-clause license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Third-party code

This project uses Leaflet which is also available under the terms of the BSD 2-clause license.

Copyright (c) 2010-2019, Vladimir Agafonkin Copyright (c) 2010-2011, CloudMade