Tiled map layers are an important part of the digital mapping stack, since Google and others introduced their slippy maps quite some time ago. There’s a huge ecosystem of (open source) software for creating and hosting tiles for your custom mapping project. In this tutorial, I want to share what I learned while setting up a tileserver for our projects at Geolicious. Over the years, I’ve come to create a number of mapping projects, where the requirement was to have a custom set of map tiles for use in web maps and mobile apps. We have covered the creation of…
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