klokantech/klokantech-gl-fonts

How to incorporate into Tileserver GL

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renefournier commented

I notice that the latest version of Tileserver GL does not display Chinese, Japanese or Korean place names in their native language. I'm assuming that klokantech-gl-fonts are meant to address that problem. Can someone point me towards the documentation regarding how to incorporate them into Tileserver GL? Thanks.

mcm-jyl commented

Easy to do when you've found the command! While looking for a solution, I came to your question!

  1. Generate the _output directory with generate.js
  2. Update the config file of your server to point to this directory, for instance
    "fonts": "/usr/lib/node_modules/klokantech-noto-sans/_output",
  3. Restart your server
  4. Last and most important, enjoy this nice stuff!

Now you should see lines like
GET /fonts/Noto%20Sans%20Regular/0-255.pbf 200

For used fonts not in this directory you'll still see lines like
ERROR: Font not found: Arial Unicode MS Regular
ERROR: Trying to use Noto Sans Regular as a fallback

N. B.: I was speaking about klokantech-noto-sans, here the output directory is already generated, even easier then: see maptiler/tileserver-gl#247.

@klokan, Great work, with a few missing lines in the documentation.

mcm-jyl commented

Even easier: extract https://github.com/openmaptiles/fonts/releases/download/v2.0/v2.0.zip to the directory mentioned earlier as "fonts".

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