Shortbread Tiles

About

The Shortbread vector tile schema is intended to be a basic, lean, general-purpose vector tile schema for OpenStreetMap data.

It does not, and cannot, cover the full breadth and depth of OpenStreetMap tagging.

This website contains the description of the Shortbread tile schema, and instructions on how to create Shortbread tiles.

Try it out with the tile set of the German state of Baden-Württemberg (360 MB).

History

Shortbread was initially made by Geofabrik GmbH and is now a community project. Contributions are always welcome.

This schema documentation is published under the terms of the CC-0 license, generated using the Hugo framework, and the source is on GitHub.

Steering Committee

The job of the steering committee is to govern the Shortbread project, decide on strategic goals and implement them. This includes as its main job to shepherd the specification for the Shortbread Vector Tiles Schema.

Jochen Topf

Jochen Topf works a freelance consultant and software developer with a focus on OSM data processing. He works on and/or maintains several Open Source projects including the vector tile library vtzero, taginfo, Osmium, and osm2pgsql. He is the author of the osm2pgsql Themepark framework which includes a Shortbread configuration for use with osm2pgsql.

Michael Kreil

Michael Kreil works as a data scientist and data journalist. He is one of the founders of the Versatiles project.

Michael Reichert

Michael Reichert develops software for OSM data processing and writes map styles at Geofabrik. He contributes to Tilemaker and started the implementation of the Shortbread scheme for Tilemaker. Michael maintains OpenRailwayMap and OpenRailRouting, and has contributed to OpenStreetMap as mapper since 2011.

Paul Norman

Paul works as a freelance consultant and software developer focused on OpenStreetMap map rendering. He has been an OpenStreetMap developer since 2011 and maintainer of OpenStreetMap Carto since 2013 and has developed map stacks at many companies. He is a maintainer of Street Spirit, a style which comes with the ability to generate Shortbread tiles. He is currently working on vector tiles for the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Pirmin Kalberer

Pirmin is a Open Source GIS software developer working for Sourcepole. He is author of BBOX and t-rex, two vector tile servers supporting the generation of Shortbread tiles from PostGIS data.

Richard Fairhurst

Richard is a freelance developer specialising in outdoor mapping for cycling, walking and boating. He is the maintainer and original author of tilemaker, and has been involved in OpenStreetMap since its first months.