UI Sandbox - Investigate alternatives for hosting UtfGrids

[Ben Wyss]

Investigate alternatives for hosting UtfGrids

[Ben Wyss (bmwyss)]

I have created a Django-MBTiles and a Python-MBtiles server to host MBtiles. Both were easy to set up and seem to work well. The only issue is that they both only seem to server MBtiles in {z}/{x}/{y}.png format. This is suitable when one does not need to have JSON or JSONP interactivity with the tileset.
I also installed TileStream (see documentation for Mac OSX and Ubuntu 12.04: http://benwyss.com/2012/12/11/setting-up-tilestream-on-mac-osx-ubuntu-12-04/ )
TileStream servers tiles sets in both {z}/{x}/{y}.png and JSON format.
TileStream also has a --host flag so TileStream will only responds to requests on hosts that it recognizes. We can pass a JSON config file with the --config option that will contain a lost of hosts that are allowed. In production it might make sense to have a tile server on say :8000 which responds only to localhost and then have Apache act as a front end.

[Ben Wyss (bmwyss)]

also see:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openquake/+bug/1097662