Self-hosting Howto

note: For most users, you don't need to run anything! The tiles are hosted free of charge, without registration. Read the "How can I use it?" section on https://openfreemap.org

When self-hosting, there are two tasks you can set up on a server (see details in the repo README).

http-host
tile-gen

note: Tile generation is 100% optional, as we are providing the processed full planet files for public download. It also requires a beefy machine, see below.

System requirements

Disk space

http-host: 300 GB for hosting a single run

tile-gen: 500 GB for

RAM

http-host: 4 GB

tile-gen: 64 GB+ RAM.

OS

Ubuntu 22+

Warning

This project is made to run on clean servers or virtual machines dedicated for this project. The scripts need sudo permissions as they mount/unmount disk images. Do not run this on your dev machine without using virtual machines. If you do, please make sure you understand exactly what each script is doing.

Instructions

Create virtualenv using: source prepare-virtualenv.sh

It's recommended to use direnv, to have automatic venv activation.

1. Prepare `config` folder

Copy .env.sample to .env and set the values.

DOMAIN_LE - Use this to specify a domain to be used with Let's Encrypt. Recommended.

DOMAIN_CF - Use this if you want to use long term CloudFlare Origin certificates. You have to upload the certs into config/certs
If you want to run tile generation and upload via rclone, you can copy the rclone.conf.sample file as well. For simple self-hosting there is no need for this.

2. Deploy a http-host

You run the deploy script locally. It'll connect to an SSH server, like this

./init-server.py http-host-once HOSTNAME

After this, go for a walk and by the time you come back it should be up and running with the latest planet tiles deployed. Don't worry about the "Download aborted" lines in the meanwhile, it's a bug in CloudFlare.

3. Deploy tile-gen server (optional)

If you have a really beefy machine (see above) and you want to generate tiles yourself, you can run ./init-server.py tile-gen HOSTNAME.

Trigger a run manually, by running planetiler_{area}.sh. Recommended to use tmux or similar, as it can take days.

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