• m3.large
• 8GB attached volume
• ubuntu server 14.04 LTS

copy server setup script from github

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USGS-WiM/nwis-mapper/master/server-config/server-setup.sh --no-check-certificate

run server setup script

sudo sh server-setup.sh

copy keys for SSL (HTTPS)

sudo cp [path to key]/server.crt /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt
sudo cp [path to key]/server.key /etc/ssl/private/server.key
sudo cp [path to key]/DigiCertCA.crt /etc/ssl/certs/DigiCertCA.crt

restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

the nwis mapper application should now be running @ localhost

ESRI ArcGIS Desktop ~10.3.1
Python 2.7
Python Pillow image library
AWS CLI

python generateTileCache.py

• takes about 3 hours minutes to run
• queries NWIS site service for sites, adds them to a fileGDB
• fileGDB feature classes are referenced within MXDs for each site type
• this is a wrapper script that generates an ESRI tile cache, cleans it up then converts to TMS tiles
• output can be uploaded directly to s3

• check to make sure paths are correct

python updateS3Bucket.py

• takes about 8 minutes to run
• loops over each folder in tile cache location, recursively deletes from s3 bucket then re-uploads new cache