You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here.
When self-hosting, there are two modules you can set up on a server (see details in the repo README).
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http-host
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tile-gen
I there is a 99.9% chance you only need http-host. Tile-gen is slow, needs a huge machine and is totally pointless, since we upload the processed files every week.
http-host: 300 GB SSD for hosting a single run and 4 GB RAM
tile-gen: 500 GB SDD and at least 64 GB ram
Ubuntu 22 or newer
This project is made to run on clean servers or virtual machines dedicated for this project. The scripts need sudo permissions as they mount/unmount disk images. Do not run this on your dev machine without using virtual machines. If you do, please make sure you understand exactly what each script is doing.
If you run it on a non-clean server, please understand that this will modify your nginx config!
Set up a server with at least 300 GB SSD space and configure the DNS for the subdomain of your choice. For example "maps.example.com" -> 185.199.110.153
git clone https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap
Copy .env.sample
to .env
and set the values.
DOMAIN_LE
- Your subdomain
LE_EMAIL
- Your email for Let's Encrypt
On Ubuntu you can get it by sudo apt install python3-pip
On macOS you can do brew install python
You run the deploy script locally, and it deploys to a remove server over SSH. You can use a virtualenv if you are used to working with them, but it's not necessary.
cd openfreemap
pip install -e .
Then run the actual deploy command
./init-server.py http-host-static HOSTNAME
After this, go for a walk and by the time you come back it should be up and running with the latest planet tiles deployed. Don't worry about the "Download aborted" lines in the meanwhile, it's a bug in CloudFlare.
If you have a really beefy machine (see above) and you really want to generate tiles yourself, you can run ./init-server.py tile-gen HOSTNAME
.
Trigger a run manually, by running
sudo /data/ofm/venv/bin/python -u /data/ofm/tile_gen/bin/tile_gen.py make-tiles planet
It's recommended to use tmux or similar, as it can take days to complete.