Martin

Martin is a tile server able to generate vector tiles on the fly from large PostGIS databases, or serve tiles from PMTile and MBTile files. Martin optimizes for speed and heavy traffic, and is written in Rust.

See Martin book for complete documentation.

Requirements

When using Martin with PostgreSQL, you must install PostGIS with at least v3.0+, and v3.1+ is recommended.

Installation

You can download martin from GitHub releases page.

Platform	Downloads (latest)
Linux	64-bit
macOS	64-bit
Windows	64-bit

If you are using macOS and Homebrew you can install martin using Homebrew tap.

brew tap maplibre/martin https://github.com/maplibre/martin.git
brew install maplibre/martin/martin

You can also use official Docker image

export PGPASSWORD=postgres  # secret!
docker run \
       -p 3000:3000 \
       -e PGPASSWORD \
       -e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user@host:port/db \
       ghcr.io/maplibre/martin

Use docker -v param to share configuration file or its directory with the container:

export PGPASSWORD=postgres  # secret!
docker run -p 3000:3000 \
           -e PGPASSWORD \
           -e DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user@host:port/db \
           -v /path/to/config/dir:/config \
           ghcr.io/maplibre/martin --config /config/config.yaml

Usage

PostGIS sources

Martin requires at least one PostgreSQL connection string or a tile source file as a command-line argument. A PG connection string can also be passed via the DATABASE_URL environment variable.

martin postgresql://user:password@host:port/database

Martin provides TileJSON endpoint for each geospatial-enabled table in your database.

MBTiles and PMTiles sources

Martin can serve any type of tiles from PMTile and MBTile files. To serve a file from CLI, simply put the path to the file or the directory with *.mbtiles or *.pmtiles files. For example:

martin  /path/to/mbtiles/file.mbtiles
martin  /path/to/directory

API

When started, Martin will go through all spatial tables and functions with an appropriate signature in the database. These tables and functions will be available as the HTTP endpoints, which you can use to query Mapbox vector tiles.

Method	URL	Description
GET	/	Status text, that will eventually show web UI
GET	/catalog	List of all sources
GET	/{sourceID}	Source TileJSON
GET	/{sourceID}/{z}/{x}/{y}	Source Tiles
GET	/{sourceID1},...,{nameN}	Composite Source TileJSON
GET	/{sourceID1},...,{nameN}/{z}/{x}/{y}	Composite Source Tiles
GET	/health	Martin server health check: returns 200 OK

Documentation

See Martin book for complete documentation.