Windshaft Setup

The tile server used by the Explorer to render all the points is Windshaft.

Mapnik

Installation from Mapnik : https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Mapnik-Installation

On Ubuntu platform:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapnik/v2.2.0
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmapnik-dev

Node.js

Tested with node.js version 0.10.21.

Windshaft relies on Node.js and since they are both under rapid development it is a good idea to use a version manager. We strongly advise use of NVM (Node Version Manager).

nvm install 0.10.21

NPM

NPM (Node Package Manager) is used to download and install node.js applications and dependencies.

sudo apt-get install npm

Redis

Windshaft uses Redis to keep tiles styling

sudo apt-get install redis-server

Windshaft

Required packages:

sudo apt-get install pkg-config libcairo2-dev libjpeg8-dev libgif-dev

From the folder you want to install node.js applications:

npm install redis
npm install underscore
npm install semver
npm install windshaft