Core serving surface
Landing pages, conformance declarations, API descriptions, Features, Tiles, read-only Styles and catalog routes are represented in the public demonstrations.
Public demos: inspect the routes →Documentation / public evidence
Read the terrain
before you deploy.
Tellurion is a geospatial serving engine for features, tiles, rasters, multidimensional arrays, STAC and 3D. This guide separates the current public evidence from optional capabilities, previews and future work.
Truthful statusCanonical instructionsBounded claims
Documentation snapshot: 2026-08-31 · Product evidence: public Tellurion v0.4.0 release-candidate source, its quickstart and installation manual, plus bounded demo artifacts.
Station 01
Capability status
These labels describe the current source tree, not a promise that every capability is present in every build or deployment.
Available
Optional
Preview
Planned
PostGIS
PostGIS is enabled in the documented default build and provides the shared database route for catalogs, features, tiles, writes, outbox, derived index, search and volumes.
Review the public evidence boundary →Embedded GeoPackage
The public vector demonstration uses the embedded GeoPackage path for a self-contained, read-only evaluation.
Inspect the GeoPackage demo →Valkey cache and browser UI
Valkey adds an opt-in L2 tile cache; the embedded browser UI is a separate opt-in build feature. Neither is required for the default serving engine.
Review what is publicly inspectable →Interactive evaluation
The public gallery demonstrates bounded vector, raster, Zarr, 3D, CQL2, STAC, Maps and Styles paths. Demo availability is evidence, not a production SLA or benchmark.
Open the demo gallery →Approved v0.4 binaries
Tellurion v0.4.0 source is public. Platform archives are intended, but there is no verified public v0.4 binary release today; build from source using the installation manual.
See the source and download state →| Driver | Shipping status | Source access | Read / write | Tiles or render |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostGIS | Available · default | Database service, local or network | Features read/write | MVT and styled PNG |
| GeoPackage | Available · default | Local file | Features read/write | MVT and styled PNG |
| PMTiles | Optional | Local archive | Read-only tiles | Stored MVT plus server-rendered PNG with applicable styles; no Features lane |
| FlatGeobuf | Optional | Local file | Features read-only | No |
| GeoParquet | Preview · public source | Local file or HTTPS byte ranges | Features read-only | MVT when CRS84 metadata and covering are usable |
| COG | Optional | Local file or HTTPS byte ranges | Raster read-only | PNG raster tiles |
| Zarr | Optional | Local or HTTPS chunk store | Raster read-only | PNG from a configured, bounded 2D x/y slice; leading indexes are fixed, not selected per request |
| Iceberg | Optional | REST catalog; local or S3-protocol table data | Features read-only | No |
| DuckDB | Optional | Local database file | Features read-only | No |
| Shapefile | Preview · public source | Local or HTTPS ZIP, bounded secure spool | Features read-only | Server wiring and a public demo remain incomplete. |
Station 02
Choose your first route
Begin with the smallest shape that answers your evaluation question.
- A
Look first
Use the public demo gallery when you want to inspect outputs before installing anything. Services may cold-start and are not load-test environments.
Explore visual demos → - B
Run v0.4.0 source
Use the public release-candidate source and its self-contained GeoPackage quickstart for a self-hosted evaluation.
Open the quickstart → - C
Read the installation manual
Build v0.4.0 source with the documented platform prerequisites and commands. The checksummed 0.3.0 binaries remain historical evidence.
Open the installation manual →
Station 03
Download state
Tellurion v0.4.0 source is public.
v0.4.0 is a release candidate for self-hosted evaluation. Start with the source and quickstart, then use the installation manual to build it. No verified public v0.4 binary is available yet; the checksummed 0.3.0 archives remain historical.
Before production
Read the licence that applies to the version and intended use. The licence text controls.
Read the public licence notice →Historical binaries
The checksummed 0.3.0 archives are retained as historical release evidence, not as the primary v0.4 evaluation path.
Review historical release assets →Station 04
Use the public source and evidence set
The v0.4.0 release-candidate source, quickstart and installation manual are public. Tellurion is self-hosted: no Tellurion Cloud, SLA or support service is offered.
Tellurion v0.4.0 sourcePublic release-candidate source for self-hosted evaluation.
QuickstartSelf-contained GeoPackage evaluation path.
Installation manualBuild prerequisites and platform-specific instructions.
Demo sourceFixtures, deployment definitions and page code for every public demonstration.
Proof briefVerified evidence, explicit exclusions and distinct next steps.
Service definitionsThe five read-only public demo services and their configured entry points.
Fixture generationDeterministic scripts and data preparation paths used by the demonstrations.
Current limitsBehavior and claims that this public evidence does not establish.
Daily verificationRepository contracts, public pages, release assets and active endpoint checks.
Station 05
What is not supported
Refusing unsupported behavior is safer than returning an answer that looks plausible.
- No universal read/write promise. Driver capabilities differ; several optional formats are explicitly read-only.
- No automatic production readiness. A successful demo or local run does not replace security, capacity and operational review.
- No benchmark claim from hosted demos. Shared infrastructure and cold starts make those timings unsuitable for comparison.
- No DGGS or geometry/3D statistics API today. Current use cases deliberately exclude them.
- No implied conformance. Consult each deployment’s
/conformanceresponse and the documented deviations.