TileStache

A stylish alternative for caching your map tiles. TileStache is a Python-based server application that can serve up map tiles based on rendered geographic data. It’s an open source WMS server that is simple and suited to the needs of designers and cartographers. Read the TileStache documentation ».

• Preview a map stylesheet during development
• Render tiles to disk (cache)
• Stream raster tile data
• Stream vector tile data

###Download and install

easy_install tilestache

###Usage

To preview tiles:

Inside your project directory you'll setup a cgi and load the page in your web browser. Append

/layername/preview.html

Note, the hash bit after the .html tracks the zoom, lat and long so you can bookmark share the current view.

#12/37.8110/-122.2660

To cache tiles:

sudo -u www-data tilestache-seed.py -c tilestache.cfg -l hybrid -b -50 3 53.5 8 -x 7 8 9 10

sudo -u www-data tilestache-seed.py -c tilestache.cfg -l hybrid -b -52.27 4.71 52.47 5.06 -x 11 12