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Windshaft-CartoDB
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[](https://travis-ci.org/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb)
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This is the [CartoDB Maps API](http://docs.cartodb.com/cartodb-platform/maps-api.html) tiler. It extends
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[Windshaft](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft) with some extra functionality and custom filters for authentication.
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* reads dbname from subdomain and cartodb redis for pretty tile urls
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* configures windshaft to publish `cartodb_id` as the interactivity layer
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* gets the default geometry type from the cartodb redis store
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* allows tiles to be styled individually
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* provides a link to varnish high speed cache
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* provides a ``infowindow`` endpoint for windshaft (DEPRECATED)
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* provides a ``map_metadata`` endpoint for windshaft (DEPRECATED)
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* provides a [template maps API](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/blob/master/docs/Template-maps.md)
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Requirements
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- Core
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- Node.js >=0.8
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- npm >=1.2.1
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- PostgreSQL >8.3.x, PostGIS >1.5.x
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- Redis >2.4.0 (http://www.redis.io)
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- Mapnik 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0. See Installing Mapnik.
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- Windshaft: check [Windshaft dependencies and installation notes](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft#dependencies)
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- libcairo2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libjpeg8-dev and libgif-dev for server side canvas support
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- For cache control (optional)
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- CartoDB-SQL-API 1.0.0+
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- CartoDB 0.9.5+ (for `CDB_QueryTables`)
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- Varnish (http://www.varnish-cache.org)
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- For running the testsuite
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- ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org)
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Configure
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Create the config/environments/<env>.js files (there are .example files
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to start from). You can optionally use the ./configure script for this,
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see ```./configure --help``` to see available options.
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Look at lib/cartodb/server_options.js for more on config
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Build/install
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-------------
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To fetch and build all node-based dependencies, run:
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```
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git clone
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npm install
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```
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Note that the ```npm install``` step will populate the node_modules/
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directory with modules, some of which being compiled on demand. If you
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happen to have startup errors you may need to force rebuilding those
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modules. At any time just wipe out the node_modules/ directory and run
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```npm install``` again.
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Run
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---
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```
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node app.js <env>
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```
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Where <env> is the name of a configuration file under config/environments/.
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Note that caches are kept in redis. If you're not seeing what you expect
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there may be out-of-sync records in there.
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Take a look: http://redis.io/commands
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Documentation
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-------------
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The [docs directory](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/tree/master/docs) contains different documentation
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resources, from higher level to more detailed ones:
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The [Maps API](https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft-cartodb/blob/master/docs/Map-API.md) defined the endpoints and their
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expected parameters and outputs.
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Examples
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--------
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[CartoDB's Map Gallery](http://cartodb.com/gallery/) showcases several examples of visualisations built on top of this.
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