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This is the CartoDB map tiler. It extends Windshaft with some extra
functionality and custom filters for authentication
This is the [CartoDB Maps API](http://docs.cartodb.com/cartodb-platform/maps-api.html) tiler. It extends
[Windshaft](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft) with some extra functionality and custom filters for authentication.
* reads dbname from subdomain and cartodb redis for pretty tile urls
* configures windshaft to publish ``cartodb_id`` as the interactivity layer
* configures windshaft to publish `cartodb_id` as the interactivity layer
* gets the default geometry type from the cartodb redis store
* allows tiles to be styled individually
* provides a link to varnish high speed cache
* provides a ``infowindow`` endpoint for windshaft (DEPRECATED)
* provides a ``map_metadata`` endpoint for windshaft (DEPRECATED)
* provides signed template maps API
(http://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/wiki/Template-maps)
* provides a [template maps API](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/blob/master/docs/Template-maps.md)
Requirements
------------
- Core
- Node.js >=0.8
- npm >=1.2.1
- PostgreSQL >8.3.x, PostGIS >1.5.x
- Redis >2.4.0 (http://www.redis.io)
- Mapnik 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0. See Installing Mapnik.
- Windshaft: check [Windshaft dependencies and installation notes](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#dependencies)
- libcairo2, libpango1.0, libjpeg8 and libgif for server side canvas support
[core]
- node-0.8.x+
- PostgreSQL-8.3+
- PostGIS-1.5.0+
- Redis 2.4.0+ (http://www.redis.io)
- Mapnik 2.0 or 2.1
- For cache control (optional)
- CartoDB-SQL-API 1.0.0+
- CartoDB 0.9.5+ (for `CDB_QueryTables`)
- Varnish (http://www.varnish-cache.org)
[for cache control]
- CartoDB-SQL-API 1.0.0+
- CartoDB 0.9.5+ (for ``CDB_QueryTables``)
- Varnish (http://www.varnish-cache.org)
[for running the testsuite]
- Imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
- For running the testsuite
- ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
Configure
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Take a look: http://redis.io/commands
URLs
----
Documentation
-------------
**TILES**
[GET] subdomain.cartodb.com/tiles/:table_name/:z/:x/:y.[png|png8|grid.json]
Args:
* sql - plain SQL arguments
* interactivity - specify the column to use in UTFGrid
* cache_buster - Specify an identifier for the internal tile cache.
Requesting tiles with the same cache_buster value may
result in being served a cached version of the tile
(even when requesting a tile for the first time, as tiles
can be prepared in advance)
* cache_policy - Set to "persist" to have the server send an Cache-Control
header requesting caching devices to keep the response
cached as much as possible. This is best used with a
timestamp value in cache_buster for manual control of
updates.
* geom_type - override the cartodb default
* style - override the default map style with Carto
The [docs directory](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/tree/master/docs) contains different documentation
resources, from higher level to more detailed ones:
The [Maps API](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/blob/master/docs/Map-API.md) defined the endpoints and their
expected parameters and outputs.
**STYLE**
Examples
--------
[GET/POST] subdomain.cartodb.com/tiles/:table_name/style
Args:
* style - the style in CartoCSS you want to set
* style_version - the version of the style for POST
* style_convert - request conversion to target version (both POST and GET)
**INFOWINDOW**
[GET] subdomain.cartodb.com/tiles/:table_name/infowindow
Args:
* infowindow - returns contents of infowindow from CartoDB.
**MAP METADATA**
[GET] subdomain.cartodb.com/tiles/:table_name/map_metadata
Args:
* infowindow - returns contents of infowindow from CartoDB.
All GET requests are wrappable with JSONP using callback argument,
including the UTFGrid map tile call.
[CartoDB's Map Gallery](http://cartodb.com/gallery/) showcases several examples of visualisations built on top of this.