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Installation

OpenStreetMap data

You need OpenStreetMap data loaded into a PostGIS database (see below for dependencies). These stylesheets currently work only with the osm2pgsql defaults (i.e. database name is gis, table names are planet_osm_point, etc).

It's probably easiest to grab an PBF of OSM data from Mapzen or geofabrik. Once you've set up your PostGIS database, import with osm2pgsql:

osm2pgsql -d gis ~/path/to/data.osm.pbf --style openstreetmap-carto.style

You can find a more detailed guide to setting up a database and loading data with osm2pgsql at switch2osm.org.

Custom indexes

Custom indexes are not required, but will speed up rendering, particularly for full planet databases, heavy load, or other production environments. They will not be as helpful with development using small extracts.

psql -d gis -f indexes.sql

Additionally you need some shapefiles.

Scripted download

To download the shapefiles you can run the following script. No further steps should be needed as the data has been processed and placed in the requisite directories.

scripts/get-shapefiles.py

This script generates and populates the data directory with all needed shapefiles, including indexing them through shapeindex.

Manual download

You can also download them manually at the following paths:

The repeated www.naturalearthdata.com in the Natural Earth shapefiles is correct.

Put these shapefiles at path/to/openstreetmap-carto/data.

Fonts

The stylesheet uses Noto Sans, an openly licensed font from Google with support for multiple scripts. The "UI" version is used where available, with its vertical metrics which fit better with Latin text. Other fonts from the Noto family are used for some other languages.

DejaVu Sans is used as an optional fallback font for systems without Noto Sans. If all the Noto fonts are installed, it should never be used.

Unifont is used as a last resort fallback, with it's excellent coverage, common presence on machines, and ugly look.

On Ubuntu 16.04 or Debian Testing you can install the required fonts except Noto Emoji Regular with

sudo apt-get install fonts-noto-cjk fonts-noto-hinted fonts-noto-unhinted ttf-unifont

Noto Emoji Regular can be downloaded from the Noto Emoji repository.

It might be useful to have a more recent version of the fonts for rare non-latin scripts. This can be installed from source.

DejaVu is packaged as fonts-dejavu-core.

Non-latin scripts

For proper rendering of non-latin scripts, particularly those with complicated diacritics and tone marks the requirements are

  • FreeType 2.6.2 or later for CJK characters

  • A recent enough version of Noto with coverage for the scripts needed.

Dependencies

For development, a style design studio is needed.

  • Kosmtik - Kosmtik can be launched with node index.js serve path/to/openstreetmap-carto/project.mml

TileMill is not officially supported, but you may be able to use a recent TileMill version by copying or simlinking the project directly into your Mapbox/project directory.

For deployment, CartoCSS and Mapnik are required.

Remember to run CartoCSS with proper API version to avoid errors (at least 3.0.0: carto -a "3.0.0").

For both development and deployment, a database and some utilities are required

  • osm2pgsql to import your data into a PostGIS database
  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • curl and unzip for downloading and decompressing files
  • shapeindex (a companion utility to Mapnik found in the mapnik-utils package) for indexing downloaded shapefiles

Development dependencies

Some colours, SVGs and other files are generated with helper scripts. Not all users will need these dependencies

  • Python and Ruby to run helper scripts
  • Color Math and numpy if running generate_road_colors.py helper script (may be obtained with pip install colormath numpy)