Hi Tobias
I suspect that there are lots of cook-books out there that never quite get
finished or published!
I too am finding that the scripts and utilities are changing all the time
so that my recipes are out of date very quickly.
Yes, I realise that linux is, in a number of ways, preferred - but maybe as
much as 95% of the OSM user base runs WIndows (from various unverified
Internet estimates of domestic computer useage!). So, by making everything
linux oriented, we immediately create barriers for a majority of potential
users. This is clearly wider than just Mapnik, of course. I started out by
cleaning off an older generation PC and installing Ubuntu and used that as
a learning platform. As a non-linux user, it was a painful but rewarding
process.
Regards,
Philip
On Dec 28, 2009 12:24pm, Tobias Wendorff <[email protected]>
wrote:
Am Mo, 28.12.2009, 11:09 schrieb Philip Howarth:
> It would be good to have examples around that are both reliable and easy
> to
> understand for the complete beginner! Having struggled for months to get
> a
> complete OSM toolchain working on Windows - I am now about 80% of the
way
> through a self-imposed task of writing a WIndows cook-book that shows
all
> the steps neccessary. The non-functioning generate_tiles.py is exactly
the
> sort of little gotcha that non-programmers and folks unfamiliar with
linux
> trip over.
I've already written such a cookbook for Windows and Linux in German
language. And in the beginning, I had equal problems on Windows.
But since the, many things - like the python scripts - changed. Since I
can script in Python, I fixed them for myself. Perhaps I will find some
time in January to publish them.
Overall, the performance is _much_ better on Linux than on Windows, using
the same hardware.
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