kelibox / map-tile-service-asp-net-core

Simple TMS (Tile Map Service) implementation (MBTiles/local files tiles storage) using ASP.NET Core

Map Tile Service

Minimal implementation of Tile Map Service (TMS); provides access to map raster tiles stored in standard MBTiles database and local file system.

Demo page

Technologies

Developed using MS Visual Studio 2017, C#, ASP.Net Core 2.0. Using

• Microsoft.Data.Sqlite for working with SQLite database
• Leaflet for map demo page

Running on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian OS) step-by-step

Install libunwind8 package on RPi to run .NET Core applications:

sudo apt-get install libunwind8

On development system with VS2017 in the solution (...\Src) directory execute the following command:

dotnet publish -c Release -r linux-arm

It will create the self-contained deployment (SCD) so that target system don't need to have .NET Core Runtime installed.

Output files will be placed into

...\Src\MapTileService\bin\Release\netcoreapp2.0\linux-arm\publish\

Copy contents of this directory to RPi (for example into /home/pi/tileservice directory), set permissions (execute access) to startup file (note that filename is case-sensitive and has no extension)

chmod +x MapTileService

Run application (file without extension):

./MapTileService

After start, it will listen on default TCP port 5000 (using in-process Kestrel web server) and tile service with demo page will be available on http://localhost:5000/ address; to enable remote calls adjust firewall settings.

References

• Tile Map Service
• Tile Map Service Specification
• MBTiles tileset format
• WMS in Leaflet