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Tilemill is an open-source map design program (multi-platform) using the mapnik rendering engine. Maps are styled in Carto (a CSS-like language) using a variety of data sources (PostGIS databases, shapefiles, GeoJSON, spreadsheets), and can be exported in MBTiles, Vectors and Raster graphics.

Tilemill is an open-source map design program (multi-platform) using the mapnik rendering engine. Maps are styled in Carto (a CSS-like language) using a variety of data sources (PostGIS databases, shapefiles, GeoJSON, spreadsheets), and can be exported in MBTiles, Vectors and Raster graphics. Tilemill is developed by Development Seed.

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How to automate export in Tilemill?

I have installed Tilemill to export my map as mbtiles,and I used mbutil to export as PNG images & UTFGrid.So forth,I have a Tilemill project with MSS(Carto) files.Now the data source is going to change weekly and I wish to automate this action. So…
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Tilemill label and Shield are overlapping, how can this be solved?

I am trying to use tilemill labels and Shield together for my road designing. But there is a problem with that. Please see the following image for better understanding. The shield is ovarlapping the Road name. I used the following code for my…
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Tilemill Styling Multiple feature Overlap some data

Please see the following Image. I am using a single feature layer for road. Now I using the following code #roads { [ROAD_TYPE = 1] {line-width:8; line-color:#194536;} [ROAD_TYPE = 2] {line-width:8; line-color:#456321;} [ROAD_TYPE = 3]…
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Tilemill Index problem

I have created my own customized tile. Now I am facing some problem with its indexing or naming convention. I am giving an clear example. I have taken an area where 6 tiles were created. In Google Maps or OSM in the same extent its giving 6 tiles…
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Tilemill Shield placing not working

I am trying to put road No in the shield with tilemill .mss. Here is the code I used. #road { shield-file: url(C:\wamp\www\shield.png); shield-name: [ROAD_NO]; shield-face-name:"DejaVu Sans Bold"; shield-size:10; shield-fill:…
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How to label lines in Tilemill?

I am designing my map with tilemill. Now I am struggling with data visualization. I would like to visualize the road name like the 1st image instead of the second image. I have loaded the data source of tilemill from shapefile which contain Road…
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Setting TileMill Shield Size?

I'm trying to set my shields on the map which contain only image (I don't want any text at all - only img). I can't change size of img. I tried markers too but I can't get them orientated like shields (no rotation, shield on the line). How can I…
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How to label points with two lines in tilemill

I am designing a map in Tilemill. I want to label my POIs with tow lines. If I am using text-wrap-width:1; then its breaking the labels with each word as a new line. Such as if the label is "One Two Three Four" then its showing like…
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tilemill - styling map similar to google at max out zoom level

I have osm bright in tilemill When i zoom all the way out to the world, the style on the maps looks very bland and basic, I was hoping to achieve something like how google maps look (I'm not after a direct copy), also mapquest has something…
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Change color of the spesific building from his labels

I just starting today to work with TileMill and I would change the color of a type of building, from his labels, that mean if I have building with (label=Hospital) that affects their a pink color. It is possibl an can someone help me…
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Rendering specific tiles (by x,y,z) using TileMill

I'm playing around with an idea for reducing the size of my tilecache (inspired by this FOSS4G talk: http://vimeo.com/106873780. The main idea is to define a set of tiles related to a bounding box, and I've made a small Python-script to calculate…
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How do I display my roads in Tilemill?

First, I'm new to TileMill, Ubuntu, and OpenStreetMap so I may be overlooking something basic. I have a Postgres/PostGIS database with my OSM data. I created a new project in TileMill and added a layer for my OSM data in Postgres. The query selects…
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How to Create Polygon drop shadow in TileMill?

How to Create Polygon drop shadow in TileMill? I need to create a drop shadow for my building polygon in TileMill. Any ideas?
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TileMill Reference Layer Plugin doesn't work w/ non-MapBox TileJSON

Has anyone been able to get TileMill's reference layer plugin to work w/ a TileJSON definition? In its description, it says it can work either with a mapbox map id or a tileJSON url. I've tried it out successfully with map ids, but when I give it…
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Show names once on a dual carriageway in Tilemill

I am trying to render a local map using OSM data with Tilemill. The biggest issue is having road names show up twice for a dual carriageway. I was thinking I could use oneway="1" plus another selector to have it only render on "odd" streets but…
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