Producing MBTiles from Openstreetmap data

There are several tools allow raw Openstreetmap data to be processed and converted into vector MBTiles datasets which adher to the OpenMapTiles schema. There are several web servers which can host and serve these datasets according to pre-defined styles. Maria GDK also supports theses datasets.

This article will describe how to use the open source tool Planetiler to process the entire planet from Openstreemap raw data (pbf) to MBTiles.

Prerequisites

• Docker Desktop
• planet-latest.pbf. Can be downloaded from https://planet.openstreetmap.org/