Map Generation
Depending on how you are generating your map, or several, Minecraft Earth Tiles allows for customization of these settings to aid in this process.
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Depending on how you are generating your map, or several, Minecraft Earth Tiles allows for customization of these settings to aid in this process.
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When generating from a PBF file, select the first two options.
When neither a PBF file nor a pre-filtered version is present, the data can be downloaded from Geofabrik or a custom-provided API (See more below) in real-time.
Number of parallel generations
Options 1-16
Select how many Tiles should be generated at once. Ideally, for stability, it should be no more than half of your CPU cores.
Allow parallel WorldPainter generations
Due to a large requirement for RAM, you can disable parallel WorldPainter generations.
Show cmd prompt during generations
Hide or show the cmd prompts for each batch file while the map is generated.
Pause cmd after each step*
Tile generation will only continue after the user has closed the cmd window for each completed Tile.
*Warning, this will not be a continuous generation. You have to close each cmd window manually.
Automatically scroll during generation
When de-selected, the user will have to manually scroll through the Tiles generation list.
Continue, even if some Tiles fail
When de-selected, the Tiles generation will be stopped when a single Tile fails.
Close the application after the generation
The Tiles program will close once all Tiles have been generated.
Send Alert after generation
Mail Address
Specify an email address to receive an alert that the entire Tile generation has finished.
Custom Overpass URL.*
*Only in use when Geofabrik is unchecked. https://overpass-api-de is used if nothing else is specified.
Custom Overpass URL: (leave blank)
Restrictions:
You can safely assume that you don't disturb other users when you do less than 10,000 queries per day and download less than 1 GB of data per day[1].
Proxy Server
When a connection to the geographical data requires different networking compared to your standard setup (Chances are if you need to use this, you'll know what you're doing).
When using the pre-filtered PBF option from
