Tilestache Recipe

tilestache.sh

# Update and upgrade
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install git build-essential python-dev python-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg8 libjpeg62-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev gdal-bin python-gdal

# Install more dependencies
sudo pip install -U modestmaps werkzeug PIL --allow-external PIL --allow-unverified PIL

# Use home folder
cd ~/

# Get TileStache
git clone https://github.com/TileStache/TileStache.git
cd TileStache

# Install
sudo python setup.py install

# Add a GeoJSON file, like congress.geojson

# Edit TileStache/tilestache.cfg with something like:

{
  "cache":
  {
    "name": "Test",
    "path": "/tmp/stache",
    "umask": "0000"
  },
  "layers":
  {
    "congress":
    {
        "provider": {"name": "vector", "driver": "GeoJSON","parameters": {"file": "../congress.geojson"},"properties": ["district"]}
    }
  }
}

# Run test server
sudo ./scripts/tilestache-server.py

# Test output with, e.g.:
# curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/congress/6/13/22.geojson

Had lots of issues with outdated/splintered TileStache docs - this is the recipe I used to successfully initialize TS from GeoJSON on a fresh server.