tilemill

A modern map design studio.

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import tilemill from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/tilemill';
</script>

README

TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by open source technology. Installation instructions, development docs and other information are available on the TileMill website.

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:

POSTGIS_VERSION="1.5" # you may need to change this
POSTGIS_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib/postgis-$POSTGIS_VERSION
createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/postgis.sql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/spatial_ref_sys.sql

For more info see: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2619431

Documentation

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

Tilemill's in-app reference available as the "Manual" is a very small subset of docs for offline usage and is manually sync'ed from the gh-pages branch.

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

git checkout gh-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 gh-pages updates do:

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