tileserver-gl/docs/config.rst

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Configuration file
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The configuration file defines the behavior of the application. It's a regular JSON file.

Example::

  {
    "options": {
      "paths": {
        "root": "",
        "fonts": "fonts",
        "sprites": "sprites",
        "styles": "styles",
        "mbtiles": ""
      },
      "domains": [
        "localhost:8080",
        "127.0.0.1:8080"
      ],
      "formatQuality": {
        "jpeg": 80,
        "webp": 90,
        "pngQuantization": false,
        "png": 90
      },
      "maxScaleFactor": 3,
      "maxSize": 2048,
      "pbfAlias": "pbf",
      "serveAllFonts": false,
      "serveStaticMaps": true
    },
    "styles": {
      "basic": {
        "style": "basic.json",
        "tilejson": {
          "type": "overlay",
          "bounds": [8.44806, 47.32023, 8.62537, 47.43468]
        }
      },
      "hybrid": {
        "style": "satellite-hybrid.json",
        "serve_rendered": false,
        "tilejson": {
          "format": "webp"
        }
      }
    },
    "data": {
      "zurich-vector": {
        "mbtiles": "zurich.mbtiles"
      }
    }
  }


``options``
===========

``paths``
---------

Defines where to look for the different types of input data.

The value of ``root`` is used as prefix for all data types.

``domains``
-----------

You can use this to optionally specify on what domains the rendered tiles are accessible. This can be used for basic load-balancing or to bypass browser's limit for the number of connections per domain.

``frontPage``
-----------------

Path to the html (relative to ``root`` path) to use as a front page.

Use ``true`` (or nothing) to serve the default TileServer GL front page with list of styles and data.
Use ``false`` to disable the front page altogether (404).

``formatQuality``
-----------------

Quality of the compression of individual image formats. [0-100]

The value for ``png`` is only used when ``pngQuantization`` is ``true``.

``maxScaleFactor``
-----------

Maximum scale factor to allow in raster tile and static maps requests (e.g. ``@3x`` suffix).
Also see ``maxSize`` below.
Default value is ``3``, maximum ``9``.

``maxSize``
-----------

Maximum image side length to be allowed to be rendered (including scale factor).
Be careful when changing this value since there are hardware limits that need to be considered.
Default is ``2048``.

``watermark``
-----------

Optional string to be rendered into the raster tiles (and static maps) as watermark (bottom-left corner).
Can be used for hard-coding attributions etc. (can also be specified per-style).
Not used by default.

``styles``
==========

Each item in this object defines one style (map). It can have the following options:

* ``style`` -- name of the style json file [required]
* ``serve_rendered`` -- whether to render the raster tiles for this style or not
* ``serve_data`` -- whether to allow acces to the original tiles, sprites and required glyphs
* ``tilejson`` -- properties to add to the TileJSON created for the raster data

  * ``format`` and ``bounds`` can be especially useful

``data``
========

Each item specifies one data source which should be made accessible by the server. It has the following options:

* ``mbtiles`` -- name of the mbtiles file [required]

The mbtiles file does not need to be specified here unless you explicitly want to serve the raw data.

Referencing local files from style JSON
=======================================

You can link various data sources from the style JSON (for example even remote TileJSONs).

MBTiles
-------

To specify that you want to use local mbtiles, use to following syntax: ``mbtiles://switzerland.mbtiles``.
The TileServer-GL will try to find the file ``switzerland.mbtiles`` in ``root`` + ``mbtiles`` path.

For example::

  "sources": {
    "source1": {
      "url": "mbtiles://switzerland.mbtiles",
      "type": "vector"
    }
  }

Alternatively, you can use ``mbtiles://{zurich-vector}`` to reference existing data object from the config.
In this case, the server will look into the ``config.json`` to determine what mbtiles file to use.
For the config above, this is equivalent to ``mbtiles://zurich.mbtiles``.

Sprites
-------

If your style requires any sprites, make sure the style JSON contains proper path in the ``sprite`` property.

It can be a local path (e.g. ``my-style/sprite``) or remove http(s) location (e.g. ``https://mycdn.com/my-style/sprite``). Several possible extension are added to this path, so the following files should be present:

* ``sprite.json``
* ``sprite.png``
* ``sprite@2x.json``
* ``sprite@2x.png``

You can also use the following placeholders in the sprite path for easier use:

* ``{style}`` -- gets replaced with the name of the style file (``xxx.json``)
* ``{styleJsonFolder}`` -- gets replaced with the path to the style file

Fonts (glyphs)
--------------

Similarly to the sprites, the style JSON also needs to contain proper paths to the font glyphs (in the ``glyphs`` property) and can be both local and remote.

It should contain the following placeholders:

* ``{fontstack}`` -- name of the font and variant
* ``{range}`` -- range of the glyphs

For example ``"glyphs": "{fontstack}/{range}.pbf"`` will instruct TileServer-GL to look for the files such as ``fonts/Open Sans/0-255.pbf`` (``fonts`` come from the ``paths`` property of the ``config.json`` example above).