TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by open source technology. Installation instructions, development docs and other information are available on the TileMill website.

• Install packages
• Build from source

Running tests

Install expresso and run the tests

npm install expresso
npm test

Note: the tests require a running postgres server and a postgis enabled database called template_postgis.

If you do not have a template_postgis create one like:

POSTGIS_VERSION="1.5" # you may need to change this
POSTGIS_PATH=`pg_config --sharedir`/contrib/postgis-$POSTGIS_VERSION
createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/postgis.sql
psql -d template_postgis -f $POSTGIS_PATH/spatial_ref_sys.sql

For more info see: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2619431

Viewing docs locally

Install jekyll

sudo gem install jekyll

Run jekyll

jekyll

View the site at:

http://localhost:4000/tilemill/docs/