Map Rendering with TileMill and Amazon EC2

2014-07-24

Rendering with TileMill and PostGIS on Amazon EC2.

1. Load data into PostGIS.

2. Create shapefile of desired map.

3. Create local TileMill project to generate project.mml file.

4. Create Amazon EC2 server loaded with TileMill. Use Springmeyer's awesome guide for this.

5. Upload shapefile to EC2 server.

6. Upload tilemill project to EC2 server.

7. Render map to mbtiles.

8. Download mbtiles to wherever the map will be served.

9. ???

10. Profit.