Design Beautiful Maps Easily with TileMill

TileMill is a design environment developed by MapBox for cartography, constituting Mapnik as a renderer, CartoCSS as a stylesheet language, and a locally-served web interface with Node.JS as a server and based on Backbone.js for the client.

Older versions up to 0.10.x are available with a native GUI on all supported platforms.

TileMill works well to load OSM data from a PostGIS database, in addition to loading shapefiles, GeoTIFFs, GeoJSON files, CSV files, both locally and from URLs.

TileMill supports exporting to multiple formats: MBTiles, PDF, PNG, JPG and Mapnik XML configuration files. Mercator is the main-supported projection.

Features

• Create unlimited projects
• Advanced layer manager
• Easily add map layers
• Import and export data
• Style your map with a plain CSS
• Add tooltips easily to your maps
• Add map markers
• Export maps to PDF, PNG, JPG, and map XML.
• Import data from comma-separated values (CSV) file
• Supports many Geo formats
• Import CSV from a URL
• Add a map legends with ease
• Add a map teaser
• Supports HTML for map legends
• Add MapBox Geodata
• Advanced zooming and marker grouping
• Supports CartoCSS
• Built-in support for high resolution tile
• Suitable for designing heat maps
• Export to MBTiles
• TileMill is tested on Linux with Node 8.11.3 LTS, and on MacOS 10.14 with Node 8.15.0 lts/carbon
• TileMill currently only works in server mode, there is no standalone GUI. Your browser is used for the interface.
• There are no native packages provided. Installation requires cloning this repo. See details below under Installation.
• Tilemill should theoretically work on the Windows platform, but it isn't tested

TechStack

The project is built using Node.JS, and Backbone.js.

License

TileMill is released under the BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License.

Resources

• https://github.com/tilemill-project/tilemill
• https://tilemill-project.github.io/tilemill/