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Render Database Load

Tom Hughes edited this page Mar 21, 2026 · 29 revisions

Database Load

  • Chef up server using the tile role if necessary
  • Create a temporary directory for the planet file under /store/tmp
  • Download planet.pbf and check the md5sum
  • Stop cinc-client, apache2, renderd and replicate services
  • Check the drive has space free with df -h /var/lib/postgresql/*/main
  • Load planet with sudo -u tile osm2pgsql --slim --database=gis --cache=80000 --flat-nodes=/store/database/nodes --number-processes=16 --output=flex --style=/srv/tile.openstreetmap.org/styles/default/openstreetmap-carto-flex.lua planet-latest.osm.pbf
  • Create additional indexes using sudo -u tile psql -d gis -f /srv/tile.openstreetmap.org/styles/default/indexes.sql
  • Initialise replication - sudo -u tile osm2pgsql-replication init -d gis
  • Run cinc-client which should fix the database permissions and start apache2, renderd and the replication service
  • Let replication bring the database up to date
  • Render low zoom tiles with sudo -u tile render_list --all --force --tile-dir=/srv/tile.openstreetmap.org/tiles --socket=/var/run/renderd/renderd.sock --num-threads=N --max-load=70 --min-zoom=0 --max-zoom=12

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