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docs/TilesMaking.md

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+# Introduction
+
+This will guide on how to turn geojson to pdf tiles which can be used with the map conpomenet. These instrutions are for Mac OS
+
+# Steps
+
+1. Get valid geojson. It should looks something like this
+
+```json
+{
+  "type": "FeatureCollection",
+  "features": [
+    {
+      "type": "Feature",
+      "properties": { "name": "Sample Point" },
+      "geometry": {
+        "type": "Point",
+        "coordinates": [-0.1257, 51.5085]
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+At this stage geographic dataa can be added so it can be visulised without need futher external jsons. Hoever if you
+
+2. Convert Geojson to .mbTiles
+
+Install home brew
+
+Install tippe cannoe
+
+run tippe cannoe
+
+3. Convert .mbTiles to .pbf
+
+install mbtiles
+
+```python
+pip install mbtiles
+```

docs/TilesServer.md

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+# Tile server
+
+Set up tile-server to serve the tiles locally
+
+Make a server.cjs file that looks like this:
+
+```javascript
+const express = require("express");
+const path = require("path");
+const fs = require("fs");
+const mime = require("mime-types");
+const cors = require("cors");
+
+const app = express();
+const PORT = 8080;
+const TILE_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "tiles-with-imd-data"); // your z/x/y.pbf folder
+
+app.use(cors()); // Enables CORS for all routes
+
+// Set correct headers for .pbf files
+app.get("/:z/:x/:y.pbf", (req, res) => {
+  const { z, x, y } = req.params;
+  const tilePath = path.join(TILE_DIR, z, x, `${y}.pbf`);
+
+  if (!fs.existsSync(tilePath)) {
+    return res.status(404).send("Tile not found");
+  }
+  res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
+  res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-protobuf");
+  res.setHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
+
+  fs.createReadStream(tilePath).pipe(res);
+});
+
+// Optional: serve an index or static frontend here
+
+app.listen(PORT, () => {
+  console.log(`Tile server running at http://localhost:${PORT}/`);
+});
+```
+
+Then from the terminal run:
+
+```console
+node server.cjs
+```