Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/15 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: On 8/15/2015 2:09 PM, Lester Caine wrote: The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards:(

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/15 12:16, Christopher Baines wrote: The obvious question is that given tilemill is not longer being maintained, what are the preferred alternatives? I'm actually not happy with the way OSRM has moved and there does not seem to be a 'standard' for the support structure? Could you

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Christopher Baines
On 15/08/15 16:14, Lester Caine wrote: Not getting much help on the GB list so I thought I'd widen the question. A couple of years back I had my own server setup working with a base of OSRM and routing covering the UK. While the map server is still working, routing has packed up and some of

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Christopher Baines
On 16/08/15 12:52, Lester Caine wrote: On 16/08/15 12:16, Christopher Baines wrote: The obvious question is that given tilemill is not longer being maintained, what are the preferred alternatives? I'm actually not happy with the way OSRM has moved and there does not seem to be a 'standard'

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread ajt1...@gmail.com
On 16/08/2015 01:46, Paul Norman wrote: ... The problem with Tilemill is that is is abandoned, and includes in-program text editing, which adds significant complexity to the codebase, and this text editing does not function with large complex styles. FWIW I've always used TileMill with an

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/08/15 16:30, Christopher Baines wrote: One of the reasons why I asked is that OSRM recently was packaged for Debian [1], which I am hoping will help with working towards making it easier to setup and run. I've dropped back to suse 13.1 again just to get something working, but even that

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/08/15 20:57, Paul Norman wrote: The obvious question is that given tilemill is not longer being maintained, what are the preferred alternatives? Kosmtik is the preferred alternative to Tilemill, but both of these are style design programs, not programs for serving tiles to others. I have

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 2:09 PM, Lester Caine wrote: The simple answer seems to be that there is no standard when it comes to mapping applications and everybody creates their own personal special such as kosmtik rather than working with established standards:( Kosmtik is a standard. But it's a development

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread nebulon42
I'm not sure how TileMill fits within your rendering stack here. Do you mean Mapnik? If you talk about carto-based style development the best alternative for TileMill right now is Kosmtik (https://github.com/kosmtik/kosmtik), which is developed and maintained by Yohan Boniface. Some if not

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Matthijs Melissen
On 15 August 2015 at 17:14, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: The obvious question is that given tilemill is not longer being maintained, what are the preferred alternatives? Depending on what you need exactly, Kosmtik might be an alternative: https://github.com/kosmtik/kosmtik --

[OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
Not getting much help on the GB list so I thought I'd widen the question. A couple of years back I had my own server setup working with a base of OSRM and routing covering the UK. While the map server is still working, routing has packed up and some of the alternate base maps are no longer

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Lester Caine
On 15/08/15 18:18, nebulon42 wrote: I'm not sure how TileMill fits within your rendering stack here. Do you mean Mapnik? tilemill allows me to serve tiles and play with the tile sheets and I have it working via nginx as well. If you talk about carto-based style development the best alternative

Re: [OSM-talk] Best base to build on ...

2015-08-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/15/2015 8:14 AM, Lester Caine wrote: Not getting much help on the GB list so I thought I'd widen the question. A couple of years back I had my own server setup working with a base of OSRM and routing covering the UK. While the map server is still working, routing has packed up and some of