Technical specification

This page lists the technical details of MapTiler Server, including system requirements and supported formats.

Platforms and CPU architectures

• Linux
  • Ubuntu 20.04+ (primary support)
  • Debian 10+
  • RHEL 8+
  • Fedora 37+
  • Centos 9+
  • Mint 6 or 20+
• Windows
  • Windows 10+
  • Server 2019+
• macOS 10.15+
• Docker 25+
• Kubernetes

Feature support

Hardware requirements

Tiles serving

• 2 CPUs
• 2GB RAM
• 1 GB of storage for installation (additional for tiles)

Maps rasterization (whole planet)

• 4 CPUs
• 16GB RAM
• 100 GB of storage for tiles, fonts, and other assets

Geocoding (full indexes)

• 2 CPUs
• 4GB RAM
• 200+ GB of storage for global geocoding indexes

Standards

• OGC API — Tiles
• WMS
• WMTS

Formats

Tiles

• Raster .mbtiles ¹
• Vector .mbtiles ¹
• Raster .mtpkg ²
• Vector .mtpkg ²
• Raster .gpkg ¹
• Quantized mesh terrain (3D) .gpkg ¹
• Tiles from PostGIS geometries

¹ The free version of MapTiler Server supports only tiles included in MapTiler data or produced by MapTiler Engine.
² MTPKG is MapTiler’s proprietary format. It is optimized for smaller data size and enables remote reading of tiles from MapTiler Server as well as local access.

Maps

• Mapbox style

Coordinate reference systems

• Tiles
  • The complete EPSG database + custom-defined SRS via Proj4. Over 6000 systems worldwide
• Maps
  • Mercator sources only

Viewers

For desktop

• Google Earth
• ArcGIS for Desktop
• QGIS (Quantum GIS)
• Tableau
• uDIG
• Any viewer supporting OGC WMTS

For web

• MapLibre GL JS
• Leaflet
• OpenLayers
• CesiumJS

Mobile native viewers

• Google Maps SDK for iOS
• Google Maps SDK for Android
• MapLibre iOS SDK
• MapLibre Android SDK
• Apple MapKit
• RouteMe
• OSMDroid
• Any viewer supporting OGC WMTS or TileJSON