springmeyer / tilelite

Simple python tile server

TileLite

A lightweight, multi-process, tile-server using Mapnik.

A gateway tool to TileStache or TileCache.

Status

• Written originally in 2008/2009 (first release was May 3rd 2009) and versioned at https://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/tilelite
• Moved from https://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/tilelite to github in 2013
• Not currently developed or maintained.

Depends

• Python 2.x
• Mapnik (>= 2.x) and a Mapnik xml mapfile you wish to serve.

Installing

git clone https://github.com/springmeyer/tilelite.git
cd tilelite
sudo python setup.py install

Usage

liteserv.py <xml> [options]

• Can be deployed with apache + mod_wsgi using one thread and many processes.
• Able to read from an optional configuration file for customization of various rendering and caching parameters.

Configuration

See the notes in the 'docs' folder and the sample 'tilelite.cfg' in the 'utils' folder.