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Design Beautiful Maps Easily with TileMill

TileMill is a modern map design studio powered by Node.js and Mapnik.

Hazem Abbas

01 Jul 2022 — 2 min read

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.

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