[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live team needs help: Someone who looks afterOSM data, tools and writes documentation is needed

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

According to our schedule, we have to release beta1 in the next 3 days.
Is there some progress on this last blocker?
Luca, Marco, Brian, can you please update the ticket with latest 
information?

Best,
Angelos

On 06/15/2016 06:25 PM, Brian M Hamlin wrote:
> Here is the ticket for the OSM City replacement task:
>
>       https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1698
>
> Luca, Marco .. can you each log in to the trac system and add a simple comment
> on that ticket, to test ?
>
> Can we each make a Pull Request using the current setup ?  Either using GitHub,
>
> or OSGeo git (preferred)
>
>     https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/osgeo/OSGeoLive
>
>     best regards from Berkeley, California
>
>      --Brian M Hamlin
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:07:11 +0300, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>      Hi Luca and Marco,
>
>      Thank you both for volunteering for this task.
>
>      The current OSM setup is based on the following installers:
>
>      1. https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_mapnik.sh
>
>      Here we need to drop Tilelite and replace it with either Tilestache or
>      apache mod_tile.
>      Both of them are already in our ppa:
>      https://launchpad.net/%7Eosgeolive/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+sourcepub/6542077/+listing-archive-extra
>      https://launchpad.net/%7Eosgeolive/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+sourcepub/6542090/+listing-archive-extra
>
>      Input from Bas regarding which to use:
>      https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1701#comment:1
>      Feel free to add your suggestions.
>
>      2. https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_osm.sh
>
>      Here we need at least to make sure we update the featured city to be
>      Bonn. More suggestions/comments/pull requests are welcome :)
>
>      3. https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/load_postgis.sh#L96
>
>      Here we import data to PostGIS since they have already been downloaded
>      from install_osm.sh.
>
>      Hope the above help.
>
>      Best,
>      Angelos
>
>      On 06/14/2016 12:56 PM, Luca Delucchi wrote:
>       > On 11 June 2016 at 13:06, Astrid Emde <astrid.emde at wheregroup.com> wrote:
>       >> Hello OSM enthusiasts,
>       >>
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       >> This is what you have to do - don't worry, it should not be too much work ;)
>       >> * provide the up-to-date software every half a year when a new version of
>       >> OSGeo-Live is coming out
>       >> * check the documentation (Overview and Quickstart) -> is there anything to
>       >> update
>       >> * provide new up-to-date OSM data (f.e. for version 10.0 we will provide
>       >> data from Bonn where FOSS4G 2016 will be in august)
>       >> * provide a quickstart (tutorial to help people to get to know OSM and make
>       >> the first steps) - this quickstart does not exist at the moment and has to
>       >> be written
>       >> * OSM covers data and OSM tools (like JOSM) which are not documented yet
>       >> ** we only have a documentation for Mapnik
>       >> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/mapnik_overview.html
>       >>
>       >> Are you interested? If yes - please let us know. (subscribe to the
>       >> OSGeo-Live (Live-demo) mailing list [4] or write to astrid_emde at osgeo.org)
>       >>
>       > I'm interested, how do you think to proceed? do you get other volunteers?
>       >
>       >> Regards
>       >>
>
>
>      --
>      Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>      OSGeo Charter Member
>      http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
OSGeo Charter Member
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