Testing Tilekiln for creating vector tiles

[pnorman (Paul Norman)]

@agiagi

~/tilekiln$ sudo -u postgres -i

Then I could create the databases with the postgres user. But I am not sure, If this is a good workaround.

No. You want to create a user with sudo -u postgres createuser -s <your name>. This will create a superuser that can create databases.

@agiagi

If I am correct, does a line need to be stripped out?

Yes - there are updates to osm2pgsql-themepark that make that line unnecessary.

If you want to create the same vector tiles that I’m doing, I recommend following the steps for spirit - except you’d use venv/bin/tilekiln dev --config shortbread.yaml --source-dbname spirit and not run the subsequent commands.

To use these tiles you’ll also need a style, but a style editor like Maputnik will work. You could also use the version of the preview that accesses local tiles.