I agree, if Hamish is willing to upkeep the project we should keep it. My students found it to be the easiest tiling solution on the disk. I don't see it really being all that different from the mbtiles output of Tilemill in context/purpose.
Were there other more specific reasons provided by the previous maintainer. Thanks, Alex On 07/22/2013 06:11 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: > Hi, > > I actually support Hamish - if he is willing to do the "little" effort, > as he says. Because usefullness and matureness is important too. How big > its user commmunity is? who knows... > > stefan > > Am 22.07.13 20:35, schrieb Cameron Shorter: >> I'd like to hear thoughts on whether we should be retiring MapTiler. >> >> My thoughts are that we should be helping new users find established >> Open Source projects, which typically are projects which have a strong >> community behind them. >> I note that MapTiler hasn't changed version number since OSGeo-Live 3.0, >> and is still reported as a beta status. >> >> I also note from the Ohloh metrics, there seems to be very little >> development: >> http://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html >> >> I suspect that users might be moving to another project instead? Eg: >> GeoWebCache? >> >> On 23/07/2013 8:28 AM, OSGeo wrote: >>> #1167: Retire MapTiler >>> ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> Reporter: camerons | Owner: live-demo@… >>> Type: task | Status: new >>> Priority: major | Milestone: OSGeoLive7.0 >>> Component: LiveDVD | Keywords: maptiler >>> ----------------------+----------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> As per request from Klokan Petr Pridal, the MapTiler point of >>> contact, we >>> should retire MapTiler. >>> >>> Of note, MapTiler has remained at version 1.0beta2 for a few years now >>> (since OSGeo-Live 3.0), which suggests a diminishing open source >>> community >>> behind the project. >>> >>> Todo: >>> * Update maptiler Project Overview and Quickstart to retired status in >>> main docs. >>> >>> * comment out install_maptiler.sh from main.sh installers >>> >>> * comment out maptiler from metrics.rst docs >> >> On 23/07/2013 9:03 AM, OSGeo wrote: >>> #1167: Retire MapTiler >>> >>> >>> Comment(by hamish): >>> >>> I find the MapTiler program to be still useful and relevant, and >>> would by >>> willing to maintain it on the live dvd on an ongoing basis. (it's >>> tiny and >>> zero maintenance anyway so I don't mind much) >>> >>> Since it just works, it doesn't matter that there hasn't been a new >>> version in ages. >>> It just means it is mature; the GDAL backend it uses regularly >>> updated so >>> it "gets updates" that way. >>> >>> >>> regards, >>> Hamish >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
