On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 4:48 PM Gandalf Corvotempesta
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Il giorno lun 12 nov 2018 alle ore 11:28 Guillaume Lederrey
> <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> > It looks like this was a fail :) But I think you removed private
> > infos. Please double check.
>
> Yes, i've removed private infos before sending. :)
>
> > One of the problem is that we already apply some style based decisions
> > when generating our vector tiles. For example, we already filter out
> > features that will not be rendered at some zoom levels. So basing a
> > style on our vector tiles will limit you in what you can render.
> > Overall, those vector tiles are an implementation detail, coupled to
> > our style and not meant to be reused. The format is likely to change
> > without warning, which would break whatever integration you might
> > have.
> >
> > If you need your own style, are limited on resources and don't want to
> > rely on our raster tiles, I'm not sure what the solution could be.
> > There are a few maps provider that will take care of the
> > infrastructure for you and let you provide your own style. But that's
> > not really our mission. We provide maps with the goal of having them
> > integrate into the various Wikipedia projects. You are very welcomed
> > to reuse those maps if they work for you. But we're not a general
> > purpose maps provider.
>
> Currently, I'm able to put the whole osm dump to a postgis database, by using
> a desktop computer (we don't have that computing power on our cloud).
>
> But, as we don't have the ability to use the postgis database on our frontend
> server (they are cloud located and tons of GB ram needed for the import are
> too expensive), we have to convert from postgis to mbtiles. We don't know how
> to do that. mbtiles are usefull, it's a single small-size file
> comparted to tons of
> pre computed png tiles.
>
> What I would like to do is to "dump" the whole pgsql database to an
> mbtiles file,
> from a command line (this has to be scripted and automated) so that our tile
> server will fetch and serve tiles directly from that.
>
> Any hint or suggestions ?

That sounds like a question that should be asked on one of the OSM
mailing lists. They have much more expertise in this area! (long way
to say: "I don't know").

Good luck!

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Guillaume Lederrey
Operations Engineer, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
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