TileMill

TileMill
Author:	MapBox
License:	BSD
Platforms:	macOS, Linux, and Windows
Version:	1.1.0 (2019-06-05)
Language:	English
Website:	https://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/
Source code:	https://github.com/tilemill-project/tilemill
Mapnik webfrontend for custom mapstyles
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data vector Source offline Rotate map 3D view Shows website Shows phone number Shows operation hours Routing Routing no Create route manually Calculate route Create route via Waypoints Routing profiles Turn restrictions Calculate route without Internet (Offline routing) Routing providers Avoid traffic Traffic Provider Navigating Navigate no Find location Find nearby POIs Navigate to point Navigation with voice / Voice guidance Keep on road Lane guidance Works without GPS Navigate along predefined route Tracking Make track no Customizable log interval Track formats Geotagging Fast POI buttons Upload GPX to OSM Monitoring Monitoring no Show current track Open existing track Altitude diagram Show POD value Satellite view Show live NMEA data Show speed Send current position Editing (Not set) Rendering (Not set) Accessibility (Not set)

TileMill is a design environment developed by Mapbox for cartography, constituting Mapnik as a renderer, CartoCSS as a stylesheet language, and a locally-served web interface with node.js as a server and based on Backbone.js for the client. Older versions up to 0.10.x are available with a native GUI on all supported platforms. The newer versions since 1.0.x use the browser for the GUI and require a node.js installation, and work on Mac, Ubuntu and Windows.

TileMill works well to load OSM data from a PostGIS database, in addition to loading shapefiles, GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON files, CSV files, both locally and from URLs.

TileMill supports exporting to multiple formats: MBTiles, PDF, PNG, JPG and Mapnik XML configuration files. Mercator is the main supported projection.

In 2015, TileMill was no longer under active development by Mapbox, which replaced it with Mapbox Studio, an online system that uses vector tiles.

In 2016, Mapbox transferred management of the TileMill project to a community of volunteer developers who continue to maintain it. The significant enhancements have been upgrading the library dependencies to keep pace with Mapnik and Carto, as well as improving the static map export functionality. The Kosmtik and Maputnik projects are actively developed alternatives to TileMill.

TileMill works well for individuals looking to render their own custom OpenStreetMap based maps using a simplified interface. The main hurdle to getting a TileMill-OSM environment running is setting up a PostgreSQL database, but which is covered in the installation instructions.

Links

• Project:
  • TileMill on GitHub
  • TileMill
• External Guides:
  • The Insanely Illustrated Guide To Your First Data-Driven TileMill Map
  • TileMill: Open Source Map Design (video)
  • Tutorial how to install a database to feed TileMill with raw OSM data working on Windows7.