Instructions for setting up a map tile server using Mapnik and mod_tile on CentOS 6.

This is assembled from various sources across the internet, the best being this guide for Ubuntu 12.04.

Big thanks to Ray Grasso for working out most of the steps.

• Ensure you have at least Ansible 1.8 installed on your host: brew update && brew install ansible.
• Ensure you have at least Vagrant 1.7 installed on your host https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html.
• Optional: Install the vagrant-cachier plugin to save download time while developing: vagrant plugin install vagrant-cachier.
• Optional: Install the vagrant-vbox-snapshot plugin so you can vagrant snapshot take and vagrant snapshot back: vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbox-snapshot.

This process only works for Mac or Linux hosts. If you want to use this on a Windows host, the Vagrantfile must be modified since Ansible cannot run from a Windows host. See https://github.com/halvards/vagrant-vm/blob/ansible/nodejs-ubuntu64/Vagrantfile for an example of how to do this.

Set up the guest VM with Vagrant by running vagrant up on host.

That's it! It'll take a while (easily an hour, more if you have a slow internet connection), but you'll be left with a working map tile server that can serve tiles for Australia.

Update the scripts if you want to serve tiles for other countries or regions (see tasks/osm-australia.yml)

Check out tiles on your host:

• Standard tiles: http://localhost:8192/osm-bright-mobile/0/0/0.png or http://localhost:8192/osm-bright-mobile/17/118373/80321.png
• Retina tiles: http://localhost:8192/osm-bright-mobile-retina/0/0/0.png or http://localhost:8192/osm-bright-mobile-retina/17/118373/80321.png
• Default OSM style (if installed): http://localhost:8192/osm_tiles/0/0/0.png or http://localhost:8192/osm_tiles/17/118373/80321.png

Try the Leaflet map (using standard tiles): http://localhost:8192/osm/map.html

Check out mod_tile stats on your host at http://localhost:8192/mod_tile

Here are the connection details if you want to explore the raw data:

• Host: localhost
• Port: 8193 (from the host OS, or 5432 from the guest OS)
• Database: osm
• Username: vagrant
• Password: vagrant

• Manually building a tile server on Ubuntu (12.04)
• Loading OSM data
• Build your own open map server on Ubuntu
• Install an openstreetmap server on CentOS
• Mapnik CentOS Installation
• The mod_tile wiki page
• The mod_tile repo
• mapnik install instructions for CentOS