TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by Node.js and Mapnik.

Installation instructions, development docs and other information are available on the TileMill website.

Build Status

Key modules

mapnik -
node-mapnik -
carto -
tilelive.js -
tilelive-mapnik -
millstone -
node-mbtiles -
node-sqlite3 -

Depends

Mapnik v2.3.0
Node.js v0.10.x or v0.8.x
Protobuf: libprotobuf-lite and protoc

However, node-mapnik (which depends on Mapnik and protobuf) is now packaged as a binary. So, you do not need an external Mapnik. See Installation

Installation

To install from source just do:

git clone git@github.com:mapbox/tilemill.git
cd tilemill
npm install

Then to start TileMill do:

./index.js # and then view http://localhost:20009 in your web browser

For more extended details follow:

Running tests

Install mocha and run the tests

npm install mocha
npm test

Note: the tests require a running postgres server and a postgis enabled database called template_postgis.

If you do not have a template_postgis create one like:

createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION postgis" template_postgis

If you experience failing tests here are two tips:

Debug the project data by running TileMill with

./index.js --files=./test/fixtures/files/
Try clearing the cache of test data:

rm -rf ./test/fixtures/files/

For more info see: http://postgis.net/docs/manual-1.5/ch02.html

Documentation

TileMill documentation is kept in the mb-pages branch, which is independently managed and not merged with master.

TileMill's in-app reference available as the "Manual" (see below for syncing details) is a very small subset of docs for offline usage and is manually sync'ed from the mb-pages branch.

To view all the TileMill documentation locally, first checkout the mb-pages branch:

git checkout mb-pages

Then install Jekyll:

sudo gem install jekyll

And run Jekyll:

jekyll

Once Jekyll has started you should be able to view the docs in a browser at:

http://localhost:4000/tilemill/

Syncing manual

To sync the manual with mb-pages updates do:

export TILEMILL_SOURCES=`pwd`
cd ../
git clone --depth=1 -b mb-pages https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill tilemill-mb-pages
cd ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}
export TILEMILL_GHPAGES=../tilemill-mb-pages
rm -rf ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual
mkdir -p ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual
cp -r ${TILEMILL_GHPAGES}/assets/manual/* ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual/
git add ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/assets/manual/*
rm -rf ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference
mkdir -p ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference
cp -r ${TILEMILL_GHPAGES}/_posts/docs/reference/* ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference/
git add ${TILEMILL_SOURCES}/_posts/docs/reference/*

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