Map tiles for BlueSky!

This is a tutorial that will explain how to:

1. create custom map tiles.

2. create a tile server.

3. create a custom style with custom tiles.

4. serve the tiles to BlueSky.

We will make the map tiles that are used for the Metropolis-2 simulations.

Note

This project is under active development.

Requirements

This tutorial will use several open source projects:

1. QGIS

2. OpenMapTiles

3. tippecanoe

4. maputnik

5. TileServer GL

Please refer to the documentation of each project for help on installation and usage.

Contents

• Creating custom tiles
  • Creating the tiles with tippecanoe
• Creating a tile server
  • Working with OpenMapTiles and TileServer GL
• Creating the Metropolis-2 style
  • Adding our local tiles to maputnik
  • Make style layers
  • Serving the styled tiles
• Serve the tiles to BlueSky
  • Showing a tiled map in BlueSky
  • Adding a different XYZ map
  • Adding an XYZ map from TileServer GL