osm-tile-server

Installing an OpenStreetMap tile server on Ubuntu 16.04 server

Usage

Login with a user that has full sudo privileges without requiring a password. If your user requires a password for sudo access (run sudo -n true to test it), you can create a file /etc/sudoers.d/username with the following content (replace username with your actual user name)

username  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/guischulz/osm-tile-server

Change working directory to the scripts sub-directory:

cd osm-tile-server/scripts

Configure setup script and modify OSM_DATA_FILE_URL, OSM_EXTENT_FILE_URL and OSM_UPDATE_URL environment variables:

nano setup_osm.sh

Run setup script:

./setup_osm.sh

The script will

• install all required packages for PostgreSQL, Mapnik, Apache, mod_tile, carto, openstreetmap-carto, osm2pgsql, osmosis
• create a system user osm for database access and rendering
• create a PostgreSQL database gis and import the osm data
• get the Mapnik style configuration used by http://www.openstreetmap.org
• compile and install the Apache module mod_tile and the OSM render daemon renderd
• setup a daily cron job to update the OSM data with osmosis
• pre-render all tiles in the region from zoom level 1 to level 13
• setup an Apache Virtual Host for http://localhost with simple OpenLayers and Leaflet example clients to access the local OSM tile server

Example

To setup an OpenStreetMap server for Germany modify the environment variables in setup_osm.sh as follows

declare -x OSM_DATA_FILE_URL=http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany-latest.osm.pbf
declare -x OSM_EXTENT_FILE_URL=http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany.poly
declare -x OSM_UPDATE_URL=http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/germany-updates

You need about 140 GB free space during the import process. The scripts are currently optimised for a hardware setup with 4 CPUs and 8 GB memory and are tested against a newly installed Ubuntu 16.04 server OS running in VirtualBox.
You can easily create a working VirtualBox image with a pre-configured packer template from https://github.com/guischulz/packer-templates. You only need to adjust the disk size to 140000.

packer build -only=virtualbox-iso -var disk_size=140000  ubuntu-16.04.03-server-amd64.json