Category: Matrix

[Previous: Self-hosting maps on my laptop]

In the previous post I showed how to run OSM tile server stack locally.

Now I’ve managed to connect a MapLibre GL JS front end to my local tile server and it’s showing maps!

(It’s running inside Element Web, the awesome Matrix messenger I am working on. NOTE: this is a very, very early prototype!)

In the previous post I ran a docker run command to launch the tile server.

This time, I had to create a file style.json:

{
  "version": 8,
  "sources": {
    "localsource": {
      "type": "raster",
      "tiles": [
        "http://127.0.0.1:8080/tile/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
      ],
      "tileSize": 256,
      "attribution": "Maps Copyright 2018 <a href=\"http://www.geofabrik.de/\">Geofabrik GmbH</a> and <a href=\"http://www.openstreetmap.org/\">OpenStreetMap Contributors</a>"
    }
  },
  "layers": [
    {
      "id": "locallayer",
      "source": "localsource",
      "type": "raster"
    }
  ]
}

and then I launched the tile server with that file available in the document root:

docker run \
    -p 8080:80 \
    -v $PWD/style.json:/var/www/html/style.json \
    -v openstreetmap-data:/var/lib/postgresql/12/main \
    -v openstreetmap-rendered-tiles:/var/lib/mod_tile \
    -e THREADS=24 \
    -e ALLOW_CORS=enabled \
    -d overv/openstreetmap-tile-server:1.3.10 \
    run

Now I can point my MapLibre GL JS at that style file with code something like this:

this.map = new maplibregl.Map({
    container: my_container,
    style: "http://127.0.0.1:8080/style.json",
    center: [0, 0],
    zoom: 13,
});

Very excited to be drawing maps without any requests leaving my machine!