A service for downloading planet.mbtiles with weekly some updates.
In the past, it was difficult to get up-to-date vector tiles from OpenStreetMap for self-hosting. While it was straightforward to download the raw planet.osm.pbf data e.g. from Geofabrik, converting the raw data to a vector tiles planet.mbtiles file was tedious. The processing with OpenMapTiles for example took several days and involved lots of database configuration.
Planetiler is a tool written by Mike Barry which is over 100x faster than the OpenMapTiles method, while still producing an output which is compliant with the OpenMapTiles schema. On a machine with 32 cores, 128 GB ram, and 600 GB SSD, planetiler can render the full planet in something like 2 hours.
AWS Planetiler is a service which converts planet.osm.pbf to planet.mbtiles once a week and stores the output in an S3 bucket s3://planetiler/planet.mbtiles. You can download the up-to-date planet.mbtiles from this bucket and use it for self-hosting. We pay the processing cost on an EC2 instance and the storage cost on the S3 bucket. You pay the download bandwidth, an approach called Requester Pays.
| key | last modified | size |
|---|---|---|
| planet.mbtiles | July 4, 2022, 13:26:08 (UTC+02:00) | 74.1 GB |
| switzerland.mbtiles | July 4, 2022, 11:27:24 (UTC+02:00) | 307.2 MB |
- Get an AWS account (required for Requester Pays)
- Install the AWS CLI
- Run
aws s3api get-object --bucket planetiler --request-payer requester --key planet.mbtiles planet.mbtiles
This will download the full planet file. If you want to test with a smaller file first, you can download data for Switzerland only with --key switzerland.mbtiles.
Running Planetiler yourself is a lot of fun. You can get some info on how I automatically start an EC2 instance from a GitHub Actions Workflow and run Planetiler in it in WORKFLOW.md.