Protomaps on Cloudflare

Uploading via Web UI is limited to 300 MB.

Use rclone to upload larger PMTiles archives to R2.

Name your uploads to storage with the .pmtiles extension. Your tile requests to the Workers URL will look like /FILENAME/0/0/0.mvt for the archive FILENAME.pmtiles.

1. In the Workers tab of the Cloudflare dashboard, choose Create a Service.

2. Leave the default HTTP handler option.

3. in Settings for your worker, choose Variables > R2 Bucket Bindings > Add Binding.

   • Create variable with name BUCKET and select your R2 bucket from Step 1.

   • Choose Save and Deploy.

4. in Quick Edit, paste in this code: index.js.

   • Choose Save and Deploy.

Your worker should now be active at its *.workers.dev domain.

Make a request for /FILENAME/0/0/0.EXT to verify tiles are served.

1. Clone the PMTiles repository and change to the serverless/cloudflare directory.

2. npm install in PMTiles/js to get the dependencies of the core JS library

3. Also npm install in PMTiles/serverless/cloudflare

4. Copy wrangler.toml.example to wrangler.toml

5. Edit wrangler.toml, replacing bucket_name with your bucket.

6. Publish the worker: npm run deploy

For the cache to work, the worker must be assigned a zone on your own domain, not workers.dev.

1. In Websites > your domain > DNS, Add a CNAME entry pointing to your workers.dev domain:

1. In Websites > your domain > Workers Routes, Choose Add Route.

   • for Route, enter SUBDOMAIN.mydomain.com/*

   • for Service, choose the name of your Worker. for Environment, choose production.

Verify your deployment is working on SUBDOMAIN.mydomain.com by checking for the Cf-Cache-Status header with a value of HIT on tile requests. This may take 2-3 attempts.

Example with curl:

 curl -v https://subdomain.mydomain.com/FILENAME/0/0/0.mvt

Optional environment variables can be set set in [vars] of wrangler.toml or in the Workers web console.

• PMTILES_PATH - A string like folder/{name}.pmtiles specifying the path to archives in your bucket. Default {name}.pmtiles

• TILES_PATH - a string like prefix/{name}/{z}/{x}/{y}.{ext} specifying the tile path exposed by the worker. Default {name}/{z}/{x}/{y}.{ext}

• ALLOWED_ORIGINS - a comma-separated list of allowed CORS origins. Default none. Examples: https://example.com,https://localhost:3000, *

• CACHE_MAX_AGE: max age in the Cloudflare cache, in seconds. default 86400, or 1 day.

• Cloudflare Workers is $5 USD per month with 10 million requests a day, plus $0.50 per additional million.
• Cloudflare R2 incurs costs for storage, write requests and read requests. These will only happon on tile cache misses.

• For Cloudflare, "Purge Cache" applies to all cached resources in the zone (domain). It's recommended to deploy on a dedicated zone for this reason.