[OSM-talk] Building a tile-server

[Tom Browder]

Yesterday I took my first try at using osm2pgsql on a pbm file and,
too late, I realized I didn't take full advantage of the server's
large RAM and multi-core capability.

This morning I killed the import process and want to start anew. Some questions:

+ should I dump all the tables created before I start anew?

+ when I import pbfs in

+ I have seen a couple of different postgresql config suggestions. Is
there a one-size fits all or should I tailor it more to my server's
configuration.

I am running Debian Buster on a bare-iron dedicated server with 32 Gb
RAM, 32 cores, and a single 4 TB spinning disk. I am running Pg 12
(the version maintained by the Pg developers) with its default
configuration.

My PostGIS is the latest Debian package version (version ?). osm2pgsql
is also a package (version ?).

Should I compile those from source?

Of course any other advice is welcomed, especially as to which other
pieces are recommended downstream for the actual tile server. And I
would really like to have vector tiles, so recommendations in that
direction are needed since it looks like not all the pieces can handle
vectors.

Oh, for the actual rendering:

+ prefer renderd or tirex?

Thank you very much.

Cheers!

-Tom