CrunchyData/pg_tileserv

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

pg_tileserv is a lightweight PostGIS-only tile server written in Go that serves Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) directly from PostgreSQL/PostGIS. It accepts HTTP tile requests, converts them into SQL queries against spatial tables and functions, and returns the resulting vector tiles.

Use cases

• serve vector tiles from a PostGIS database over HTTP
• publish PostGIS tables as Mapbox Vector Tile layers
• build a lightweight map tile backend without a heavy GIS stack
• expose custom SQL spatial functions as tile layers
• feed web maps (Leaflet, MapLibre, Mapbox GL) with data from PostgreSQL
• cache tiles behind a proxy like Varnish for production map serving

When to choose

• your spatial data already lives in PostgreSQL/PostGIS and you want to serve it as MVT with minimal setup
• you want a small, single-binary tile server with a simple configuration
• you need dynamic tiles generated from SQL queries or custom PostGIS functions
• you prefer a Martin-like API for tile serving

When to avoid

• you need to serve raster tiles or pre-rendered tile caches
• your data is not in PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• you need a full-featured GIS server with WMS/WFS support
• you want heavy server-side styling or rendering logic

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http-server web-framework database geospatial web-development databases backend windows go self-hosted postgis mvt vector-tiles tile-server mapbox-vector-tiles sql maps linux macos docker

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