<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div>I'm wondering if we can find a volunteer to act as OSGeo-Live point-of-contact for the MapSlicer project (previously called MapTiler). </div><div><br></div><div>(I'm interested to know what version we should package for the next OSGeo-Live release).</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards, Cameron</div><br class="">On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Activity Workshop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@activityworkshop.net" target="_blank">mail@activityworkshop.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br><br>I've had a quick look at the MapTiler source, and I agree with those who<br>think it should be _kept_ in osgeo if at all possible. It seems to work<br>fine, it looks good, seems very useful and is one of those things that's<br>easy to demo too so it fits extremely well. All credit to Petr and the<br>other authors, thank you for this nice piece of work!<br><br>I'd be glad to help with the necessary "adjustments" to the code if I<br>can, and if help is needed. From the spreadsheet it looks to be<br>unaltered for several versions of osgeo so I assume that it has been<br>thoroughly tested and it works. So the effort to maintain it working<br>but without the MapTiler references should be very manageable. It's<br>just a shame that the request was received (and already acted upon) so<br>suddenly before the release, it would have been better to have more time<br>for preparation.<br><br>What I think we need now is a stable base of the source code and a way<br>to build a package suitable for osgeo. Unfortunately it seems that the<br>code on github (I found two versions, both identical) is _not_ the same<br>as the one on the osgeo DVD. Github (and googlecode) have 1.0alpha3 and<br>osgeo has 1.0beta2, and despite the innocuous-sounding version numbers<br>there are huge differences between them. I assume we want to go forward<br>starting from the osgeo code, unless someone has a more complete source<br>package somewhere? Could this be put up on somewhere like github too?<br><br>About the differences between the gdal2tiles.py files provided by gdal<br>and maptiler, that sounds like a complex issue but maybe that doesn't<br>have to be resolved immediately - this conflict has been around for a while.<br><br>About the MapTiler icon, personally I can't see any reason why we can't<br>continue to use it, at least in the short term. The image is<br>BSD-licensed and is already "out there", so we should have no problems<br>using and redistributing it. Maybe the icon can be changed later, but<br>the priority now should be to get the software available again.<br><br>And about the name "IceTiler" - is this open for discussion? I<br>understand the tip of the hat to Iceweasel, but maybe a more descriptive<br>name would be more appropriate here - something to give a clue what the<br>software does (like the name MapTiler does). It doesn't tile ices.<br>Might I suggest some alternative names, like "MapSlicer" or "TileGenie"<br>instead? Actually it looks like those names have gone already, but<br>something else in that direction maybe?<br><br>Regards,<br>activityworkshop<br><div class=""><div class="h5"><br>_______________________________________________<br>Live-demo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br><a href="http://live.osgeo.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com" target="_blank">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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I just received a confirmation from Peter Briggs, the creator and contact person of CCP4's MapSlicer, that there is no conflict with the names since that is a utility under the CCP4 project.<br>
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I think we are ok with the potential name. The poll is going to be open for 1 more hour.<br>
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Best,<br>
Angelos<span class=""><br>
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On 02/14/2015 02:46 PM, Even Rouault wrote:<br>
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Le samedi 14 février 2015 13:24:42, Activity Workshop a écrit :<br>
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If anyone would like to help with this, we now have a wiki page (thanks,<br>
Angelos!)<br></span>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer</a><br>
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There's another project named MapSlicer:<br>
</span><a href="http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/mapslicer.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/mapslicer.html</a><br>
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CartoSlicer seems unused<br>
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Anyone is welcome to fill something in in there, giving basic details<br>
and links.<br>
Also if anyone wants to make a start on the docs, the more hands the<br>
better!<br>
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Regards,<br>
activityworkshop<br>
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