Tiles Server

The tiles server consists of two separate deployable images: the server itself and the tile builder task.

Running locally

Prerequisites

this task relies on tipcannoe being installed. this can be installed easily and the commands can be found in their github repo

Running locally with aws credentials and docker

To run the service locally run make application while authenticated with aws-vault. It is advised that you limit the number of other tasks running and have a minimum of 6GB free space for the required files.

To reset the current tiles stored, run make clean before running make application to start from a clean slate.

Running tiles building locally without aws credentials

The above is helpful when running with aws credentials and it will launch the datasette app. I have created a temporary solution for producing the tiles locally. This is mainly for on going work and should be reconsidered in the future.

The script can be ran by changing into the task directory and running

./build_local.sh

Building & Deployment

There are two separate GitHub actions deploy-application.yml and deploy-task.yml. Each will run when changes are made to their respective code directories ./application and ./task.

Licence

The software in this project is open source and covered by the LICENSE file.

Individual datasets copied into this repository may have specific copyright and licensing, otherwise all content and data in this repository is © Crown copyright and available under the terms of the Open Government 3.0 licence.