[gdal-dev] [Live-demo] [Board] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

[Zoltan Szecsei]

>>
>> 1) Merge maptiler's gdal2tiles enhancements into GDAL version, and make
>> maptiler just a GUI over it
>>
>> 2) Merge maptiler's gdal2tiles enhancements into GDAL version, and 
>> also import
>> the GUI (I think it is lightweight) if there's no too strong build
>> complications involved for GDAL. Would have to be checked
>>
>> 3) Remove gdal2tiles from GDAL so that the reborne maptiler is the 
>> reference.
>> But there are perhaps fixes in GDAL gdal2tiles that should be merged 
>> into
>> maptiler one (Python3 compatibility comes to mind)
>>
>> Any option would need someone to champion it of course...
>
> IMO, the third option should not be considered at all, since 
> gdal2tiles is very important tool in gdal and many people (including 
> me) prefer the script from any GUI out there. I have also seen an 
> improved version of this script dealing with multiple threads.
>
> My preference would be option 1.
>
> Just my 2c :)


Totally agree: cmd-line faaar more useful than GUI, for production jobs.

Regards,
Zoltan


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