Tile38 is an open source (MIT licensed), in-memory geolocation data store, spatial index, and real-time geofence. It supports a variety of object types including lat/lon points, bounding boxes, XYZ tiles, Geohashes, and GeoJSON.
You can find detailed documentation in the README.
Changelog
[1.35.0] = 2025-06-16
Added
- 4638279: Added NATS Jetstream acks, user credentials, and tls #770 (@VeryStrongFingers)
Updated
- 3fe57a7; Use atomics for HEALTHZ command to remove contention.
- 3085316: Expose the 'this' property to WHERE clauses.
Getting Started
Docker
docker pull tile38/tile38
docker run -p 9851:9851 tile38/tile38
Visit the Tile38 Docker Hub Page for more information.
OS X
To get started on OSX run the following in a terminal:
curl -L https://github.com/tidwall/tile38/releases/download/1.35.0/tile38-1.35.0-darwin-amd64.zip -o tile38-1.35.0-darwin-amd64.zip
unzip tile38-1.35.0-darwin-amd64.zip
cd tile38-1.35.0-darwin-amd64
./tile38-server
Linux
To get started on Linux run the following in a terminal:
curl -L https://github.com/tidwall/tile38/releases/download/1.35.0/tile38-1.35.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz -o tile38-1.35.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzvf tile38-1.35.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
cd tile38-1.35.0-linux-amd64
./tile38-server
FreeBSD
To get started on FreeBSD run the following in a terminal:
curl -L https://github.com/tidwall/tile38/releases/download/1.35.0/tile38-1.35.0-freebsd-amd64.tar.gz -o tile38-1.35.0-freebsd-amd64.tar.gz
tar xzvf tile38-1.35.0-freebsd-amd64.tar.gz
cd tile38-1.35.0-freebsd-amd64
./tile38-server
Playing with Tile38
Open another terminal:
./tile38-cli set fleet truck point 33.5 -115.5
./tile38-cli get fleet truck