How to clear all osm tiles cache on my own server

caching openstreetmap mapnik
GeoffreyB picture GeoffreyB · Sep 5, 2012 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

I'm currently working on a map project, based on OpenStreetMap, using Mapnik, renderd and mod_tile (like osm do on their website). I've built an osm tiles server, following some tutorials, on my personal computer (Ubuntu 12.04). It works well, and i've loaded a lot of regions of one country (not the entire planet, just some piece of the planet).

I realized that mod_tile was using a cache for each tiles rendered, so i decided to investigate how i can clear that. The only solution i found so far was to use the render_expired binary, but i don't understand how i can set all tiles to expired by this way (moreover without diff files)... I was trying to find where these images are located but i don't find them.

I need some help, so if someone has an idea ...

Answer

baol picture baol · Oct 20, 2012

Just remove the mentioned /var/lib/mod_tile/default (using rm -rf if you dare) and restart renderd daemon.

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