Hi,
Following the instructions at
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply , we have filled in the
requiered information to apply for TileMill to be included in the Disc.
Find answers either bellow or at [1]
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlRFyY1XenjJdHZpZTJLcHNITHMwNG5wZWgxQXkxcFE
Regards,
Javi Sánchez
Capitulo Hispanohablante OSGeo (Madrid)
- TileMill Live_GIS_Disc_Apply -
What is its name? TileMill
What is the home page URL? http://tilemill.com
Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used? BSD
What does the application do and how does it add value to the
GeoSpatial stack of software? TileMill is a tool to quickly and
easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the
powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik ( the same software
OpenStreetMap and MapQuest use to make some of their maps ) and uses
CartoCSS as a stylesheet language.
Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions
of the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about
how standards are used. TileMill does not support any OGC standards,
like WMS or WFS. Rather it adhers the widespread practices of z/x/y tile
schemes used by Google and OSM and is based on the MBTiles and UTFGrid
specifications.
What language is it written in? JavaScript - Uses Node.js on
the serverside and shares some backbone.js models on the clientside
Which version of the application should be included in the next
OSGeo-Live release? 0.10.1
Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user
finds a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all
other OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the
following answers):
If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application
into production, it would imply that these organisations have verified
the stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please
mention some of these organisations? TileMill can be both used as a
Desktop GUI tool and a serverside/command line rendering engine. In both
forms is has been used by many organizations in production. MapBox uses
it to render global baselayers down to z17 (mapbox-streets), NPR used it
to make the census map: http://apps.npr.org/fire-forecast/, and many
more examples: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/gallery/
What is the size of the user community? You can often answer
this by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email
list? New releases usually see 10-15 thousand downloads
What is the size of your developer community? 10 Developers
Do you have a bug free, stable release? Every release
becomes more stable, 0.10.1 is the most stable yet.
Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
through. TileMill has unit tests as well as many of the libraries it
depends upon
How long has the project has had mature code. Several years
OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather
than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project
Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a user
interface.) TileMill is a map design studio desktop application that
users can interact with by means of its graphical user interface.
We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which
are presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved in
OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then
please mention it. "- TileMill is not an incubated project at present.
- It was present at FOSS4G 2011
- Workshop at Girona (Spain) GIS Open Source 2011 venue
- Next FOSS4g 2013 paper:
http://foss4g-na.org/schedule/cartography-with-tilemill-postgis-and-openstreetmap/";
With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core
packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email
list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to
take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and
Quickstart documentation works as expected on release candidate releases
of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person. Javier
Sánchez
OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
Install .deb files from a PPA
Write a custom install script Write a custom
install script
Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
Application is installed by means of an Ubuntu PPA
OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run
in 512 Meg of RAM? YES
How much disk space will be required to install the application and
a suitable example application? 146.3MB on disk
We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of
a common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example
datasets already installed:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If
another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be
included in the standard release. ok, Current datasets are
appropriate, as OSM and PostGIS examples can be managed from TileMill.
On the other hand, example projects are also included.
Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
under a CC By and a Quickstart available under a CC By-SA license. (You
may release under a second license as well). Will you produce this? YES
In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for
some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
Windows and/or Mac installers? Yes indeed, as Installations from Mac
OS X and Windows are available
El 14/12/12 00:16, Cameron Shorter escribió:
Javi,
This was discussed at this week's weekly meeting, and we were
reasonably supportive of this proposal. Could you please make an
official application, answering our standard questions for including a
new application, which will allow us to make a better assessment.
The questionnaire is here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply
On 14/12/12 09:32, Javi Sanchez wrote:
Hi all,
As Volunteer to maintain OSM apps, this is to suggest a last minute
change to switch to TileMile instead of osmarender, within current
release 6.5. I have confirmed that the installing script is already
available, and I would be ready to write the overview/quickstart over
the next 1 month, according to the planned milestones.
I would like to know your opinions or if there is any inconvenience
we may have to discus or take into account.
This can significantly improve the capabilities to exploit OSM data
and It may be worth it.
Best Rergards,
Javi Sánchez
Capitulo Hispanohablante OSGeo (Madrid)
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