TileServer GL

TileServer GL is a map tile server for vector and raster maps with GL styles. It serves tiles to MapLibre GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, and GIS clients via WMTS, reading vector tiles from MBTiles files such as OpenMapTiles downloads.

The full build renders vector tiles to raster images on the server with MapLibre GL Native. A lighter tileserver-gl-light build is pure JavaScript with no native dependencies and runs anywhere, but drops server-side rasterization.

It installs through npm or runs as a Docker image and needs Node.js 20+. For public-facing use it accepts a canonical public URL or an allowed-hosts list to mitigate host header poisoning. The repo is maintained by MapTiler.