strong support for TileMill
+1
On Dec 22, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Thanks Javi,
Based on Javi's responses, and also that I understand from Brian
Hamlin that an installer has already been written, I'm +1 for
including TileMill as part of the OSM tools that we include on
OSGeo-Live.
I can see from responses that this project is well established, and
has a strong user community behind it.
On 21/12/12 18:54, Javi Sanchez wrote:
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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