[Live-demo] About mapslicer/maptiler related to openHub

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Even, thanks for the introduction.

Hi Grégory,

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the usefulness MapSlicer 
(previously MapTiler), whether it is still relevant, and whether there 
are people checking on it.

As per email discussion below, we are currently debating this question 
on the OSGeo-Live project.

http://live.osgeo.org


On 27/4/17 3:25 am, Even Rouault wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> FYI, Grégory Bataille (CC'ed) has recently worked on fixing various 
> issues and new improvements in the gdal2tiles.py script included in 
> GDAL. I'm not sure how far this is from the forked version included in 
> mapslicer.
>
> Even
>
> > > So what do you suggest we do about MapSlicer? I'm wondering 
> whether the >
>
> >
>
> > project is still a good candidate for including on OSGeo-Live. 
> Angelos will
>
> > probably want to answer this himself, but this is what I see: > 1. 
> Is the
>
> > project still useful and used? Difficult to say. I find it useful, and I
>
> > (very) occasionally use it, but it doesn't appear to be widely used. I
>
> > think it's interesting because it can do things that no other open 
> product
>
> > can do, so that's why it was considered important to "save" when 
> MapTiler
>
> > was being withdrawn. We didn't want to lose the possibilities that it
>
> > offers. > 2. Does the project have a community behind it? No, I wouldn't
>
> > say so. Feel free to correct me! > 3. Do we have a point of contact 
> for the
>
> > project? This email list, Angelos, me, or the github page where 
> issues can
>
> > be raised:
>
> > https://github.com/geopython/mapslicer > 4. If we do keep the project, I
>
> > suggest we should create OpenHub metrics > for it. By all means. I don't
>
> > know how much effort this would be to set up, but the github 
> repository is
>
> > there so I guess it's straightforward. For sure the OpenHub metrics 
> will be
>
> > _extremely_ sparse, because since the "rescue" I don't think much 
> (if any)
>
> > development work has gone into it. If someone has ideas for how it 
> could be
>
> > improved or extended then they could add them as suggestions to 
> github. If
>
> > you do decide to keep it in OsGeo, it would be because it's useful 
> and can
>
> > play together with the other tools in there, rather than because it's an
>
> > actively-developed project with lots of new development. That's a 
> decision
>
> > for you guys.
>
> >
>
> >
>
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