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Simple python tile server
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# TileLite

A lightweight, multi-process, tile-server using Mapnik.

A gateway tool to [TileStache](http://tilestache.org/) or [TileCache](http://tilecache.org).

## Status

- Written originally in 2008/2009 (first release was May 3rd 2009) and versioned at https://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/tilelite
- Moved from https://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/tilelite to github in 2013
- Not currently developed or maintained.

## Depends

- Python 2.x
- Mapnik (>= 2.x) and a Mapnik xml mapfile you wish to serve.

## Installing

git clone https://github.com/springmeyer/tilelite.git
cd tilelite
sudo python setup.py install

## Usage

liteserv.py [options]

- Can be deployed with `apache` + `mod_wsgi` using one thread and many processes.
- Able to read from an optional configuration file for customization of various rendering and caching parameters.

## Configuration

See the notes in the 'docs' folder and the sample 'tilelite.cfg' in the 'utils' folder.