Tirex is a bunch of tools that let you run a tile server. A tile server is a web server that hands out pre-rendered map raster images to clients.
The web page for Tirex is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tirex . See there for more information.
You'll need the following Perl modules to run Tirex:
- IPC::ShareLite (Debian/Ubuntu: libipc-sharelite-perl)
- JSON (Debian/Ubuntu: libjson-perl)
- GD (Debian/Ubuntu: libgd-gd2-perl)
- LWP (Debian/Ubuntu: libwww-perl)
You'll need a C++ compiler and build tools to compile the Mapnik backend.
To build Tirex run
make
in the main directory. This will compile the mapnik backend and create the man pages for the Perl modules.
Call 'make clean' to cleanup after a 'make'.
To install Tirex call
make install
as root user. This will install the main parts of Tirex including the tirex-master, tirex-backend-manager and the Mapnik backend.
This will not install the example map, or the munin or nagios plugins. To install those, call
make install-example-map
make install-munin
make install-nagios
respectively. You can also install everything with
make install-all
Geofabrik maintains backports of Tirex on it's github fork.
| OS | Branch |
|---|---|
| Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) | geofabrik/noble |
| Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) | geofabrik/jammy |
To build these backports, clone the repo, switch to the branch and call:
gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder --git-ignore-branch --git-dist=DIST
(e.g. … --git-dist=noble).
This will produce files like tirex_0.8.0-1~geofabriknoble1_amd64.deb
The Debian GIS Team's guide to Packaging with Git, explains how to set up a build environment, and create a cowbuilder environment.
Geofabrik makes no guarantee that the backport(s) will work for the duration that the OS release is supported upstream.
To create Debian/Ubuntu packages you need the package 'devscripts' installed. Call
make deb
to create the packages. The following packages will be created in the parent directory:
tirex
Call 'make deb-clean' to cleanup after a 'make deb'.
This package is also maintained in Debian by the Debian GIS Team.
Call 'prove' in the main directory to run Perl unit tests. You need Test::More (Debian/Ubuntu: libtest-simple-perl) and Test::Harness (Debian/Ubuntu: libtest-harness-perl) installed.
There are some other tests in the 'test' directory. See the description at the beginning of the scripts for information on how to use them.
