2016 - FOSS4G: Create Vector Tiles from OpenStreetMap
Channel: Manuel Roth
Date: 2016-08-27

The OSM2VectorTiles project offers free downloadable vector tiles ready to use by people interested in hosting custom base maps on their own infrastructure. The whole world fits on a USB stick and can be served from an ordinary web hosting and styled and enriched to make beautiful and fast maps for web and mobile applications.

The advantages of vector tiles over traditional raster tiles are well known. There are already a handful of vector tile provider present, but they may not always serve your use case optimally. After this talk you will know how to create your own custom vector tiles based on OpenStreetMap and will know the tools and processes you need to use.

The talk will cover how to import OpenStreetMap data into PostGIS and then shows how to generate vector tiles using Tilelive and Mapnik. We will present the open source workflow we use at OSM2VectorTiles to prerender global vector tiles and instruct you how to adapt the workflow to create custom vector tiles. Thanks to Docker and tools such as Mapnik, PostGIS, Tilelive and Mapbox Studio Classic the process is straightforward and repeatable.

Project Website: http://osm2vectortiles.org/
Github: https://github.com/osm2vectortiles/osm2vectortiles

This video was originally published on the official FOSS4G video portal under the CC-BY-3.0 license. It was republished on Youtube for easier sharing on the project website of OSM2VectorTiles. The video has not been altered before republishing.

Link to original video: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/FOSS4G-2016/foss4g-2016-1144-create_vector_tiles_from_openstreetmap-hd.mp4
Link to license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/
Link to official video portal of FOSS4G: http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/index.php