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OSM Tileserver

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This page contains historical information. It may be outdated or unreliable.
Detailed information about the former community maintained OSM tiles server on toolserver, toollabs and toolforge. After the foundation released it's production tiles server, it become unmaintained and then slowly degraded and was ultimately decommisioned
See mw:Wikimedia Maps for information about the Wikimedia Foundation's Maps project which runs a different tile server stack.

This page is for the Cloud VPS project to implement an OpenStreetMap TileServer to serve the same basic data as OSM themselves (synced from them). This is orthogonal to (or in some other sense, a prerequisite for) other OSM efforts going on in Cloud Services for related overlays and databases. Corrections to the information below are welcome, this is all to the best of my knowledge at this time...

Resources

Technology stack

  • Apache with mod_tile and mod rewrite
  • Munin: Create graphs of tile freshness https://tiles.wmflabs.org/munin/mod_tile-month.html
    • conf:
    • output: /var/www/munin
    • apt: sudo apt-get install munin munin-node munin-plugins-core munin-plugins-extra
  • Renderd
    • conf: /etc/renderd.conf
    • output: /data/project/tiles/[tilevariant]
    • Important: make sure fonts for global scripts are installed.
    • Hillshading is not rendered it seems. pre generated tiles ?
    • apt: renderd/trusty
    • renderd, can have slaves. this is determined by the --slave param when starting the renderd daemon
    • Tends to crash.. added /etc/systemd/system/renderd.service.d/restart.conf
[Service]
Type=exec
PIDFile=/var/run/renderd/renderd.pid
# Make sure apache and other processes have prio
Nice=1
RemainAfterExit=no
#It crashes a lot and needs restarts
Restart=always
RestartSec=2s
# Restart it every hour, because it leaks memory
RuntimeMaxSec=3600
  • Mapnik
    • Version: 2.2.0
    • Styles: /data/project/styles/
    • Lib: /usr/lib/mapnik/2.2/input
    • apt: libmapnik-dev/trusty, libmapnik2.2/trusty, mapnik-utils/trusty, openstreetmap-mapnik-carto-stylesheet-data/trusty, python-mapnik/trusty
      • Stretch: libmapnik-dev, libmapnik3.0, mapnik-utils, python3-mapnik
  • Database
    • Host: osmdb.eqiad.wmnet
    • User: osm
    • Database: gis
    • Referenced from /data/project/styles/*/*.xml
  • OSM Stylesheets
    • Seems most of these are not versioned, have not been updated since 2014 and we seem to be missing the .mml (we only have the output)
    • likely will have to keep using what we already have generated for now.
    • apt: openstreetmap-carto
    • Hikebike: hikebikemap-carto
    • OSM Default: openstreetmap-carto
    • OSM Default no labels:
    • bw-mapnik:
  • Installed fonts:
    • fonts-dejavu, fonts-dejavu-core, fonts-dejavu-extra, fonts-noto fonts-khmeros, fonts-khmeros-core, font-sil-padauk, fonts-sipa-arundina, ttf-indic-fonts-core, ttf-kannada-fonts, ttf-tamil-fonts, xfonts-encodings, xfonts-utils
    • stretch: fonts-dejavu fonts-dejavu-core fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-droid fonts-khmeros fonts-khmeros-core font-sil-padauk fonts-sipa-arundina ttf-indic-fonts-core xfonts-encodings xfonts-utilsfonts-taml fonts-samyak-taml fonts-lohit-taml fonts-lohit-knda fonts-knda
    • puppet: include ::mediawiki::packages::fonts
  • postgresql-client for debugging

Tile refreshing

mod_tile looks at the import statement for the planet to determine if tiles are old. This is import statement is basically the modification timestamp of the file /data/project/tiles/planet-import-complete.

Normally this timestamp is left by the osm2pqsl import, but we keep it manually on this tiles server. touch -t 20210615 /data/project/tilesplanet-import-complete. We set it via cron every day, assuming that WMF imports work :) 

/etc/cron.d/importplanet
0 1 * * * sudo -u www-data touch /data/project/tiles/planet-import-complete

For an individual tile, it is possible to request the current status by appending /status to the url like so: a status url. You can also submit it to be rerendered by appending /dirty instead. All rerender requests are queued, so it might still be a considerable time before the tile is actually rerendered.

There is some more information on rerendering strategies here on OSM wiki. We currently do not use this.

DSN/Web proxies

This project does not contain any public IPs. Rather, the public IPs for the project are owned by the 'project-proxy' project, and assigned to proxy hosts that are specific to the maps project.

DNS settings in the 'maps' project refer to the proxy host in project-proxy, for example: 

 wma1.wmflabs.org. 	A - Address record 	185.15.56.55 	Active

There are two proxy hosts in project-proxy, and active and a passive node, named maps-proxy-01.project-proxy.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud and maps-proxy-02.project-proxy.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud. The list of proxies is configured with hiera and profile::wmcs::proxy::static::proxy_mappings: 

profile::wmcs::proxy::static::proxy_mappings:
 0.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 1.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 2.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 3.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 4.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 5.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 6.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 7.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 a.tiles.wmflabs.org: maps-tiles1.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 b.tiles.wmflabs.org: maps-tiles1.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 c.tiles.wmflabs.org: maps-tiles1.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 label.wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 maps.wmflabs.org: maps-tiles1.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 tiles.wmflabs.org: maps-tiles1.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 warper.wmflabs.org: maps-warper3.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma0.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma1.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma2.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma3.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma4.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma5.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma6.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud
 wma7.wmflabs.org: maps-wma.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud

To add or modify a proxy, first make the necessary DNS change within the Maps project (and point the new domain to the maps proxy IP, 185.15.56.55. Then ask a WMCS admin to adjust the hiera as needed. Hiera is located in the 'maps-proxy' puppet prefix.

Questions

  • Can we puppetize this ?
  • Should we switch from renderd to tirex ?
  • Where does the code for renderd come from ?
  • Why is maps-tiles2.maps.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud not serving http ? (it was a rendering only slave)
  • Is there no osm2pqsl ??????????
  • The styles are 83MB.. but contain the dbname etc. How to not put that in puppet repo, yet have dbname configurable ?
  • what is the difference between the https and the apache manifests ?

Decisions

  • since grafana and nagf provide the same info
  • Build a new cluster on hostname maps.wmflabs.org (currently unused), for easy testing
  • Switch to Debian Stretch as best supported
  • Create a repo to maintain all the styles, config files and any non-privileged information
  • Get rid of some no longer active wmflabs maintainers from the project
  • delete overpass-wiki instance. Made by User:Jotpe, but doesn't seem to be in actual use.
  • Make a debian stretch package of mod_tile ??????? See: APT_repository

See also

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