[Live-demo] Retire MapTiler?

[Alex Mandel]

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
>>>
>>
>>
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