[Live-demo] MapTiler for FOSS4G 2009

[Cameron Shorter]

klokan,
I've just added the OSGeo user id "klokan" to the osgeo group, so you 
should now have svn access.

Can you please try out your svn access, and add your name to the 
contributors file, as per:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Subversion

If someone has not already beaten you to it, you can then add your 
script via svn.

klokan at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am submitting the upgraded version of install_maptiler.sh - it is
> attached to this email.
>
> Please, can somebody check this script and include it into the SVN for
> LiveDVD beta?
> It seems I don't have SVN access to the LiveDVD repository.
>
> I have added the record for MapTiler into the table at wiki:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Packages
>
> Feel free to contact me in case of any troubles.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Klokan
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:35 PM, klokan at gmail.com <klokan at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Cameron,
>>
>> I prepared the installation script for MapTiler and tested it with the
>> alpha version of LiveDVD. It is attached to this email. Can you please
>> review and commit it to the SVN?
>>
>> The script is based on the GRASS one. Grass seems to be installed in
>> the latest version from the les-ejk.cz repository, so I am using the
>> gdal 1.6 packages from the same repository. In case you will switch
>> with GRASS to another repository (like Ubuntu GIS) then my script
>> should be changed as well.
>>
>> Installation should be straight forward and hopefully without problems.
>>
>> The script prints instructions for a simple test of the functionality
>> of the program - as it was requested.
>>
>> The MapTiler is in version 1.0 alpha3 (but quite stable). If we manage
>> to release and properly test the first beta till Monday then I will
>> send another updated installation script for the LiveDVD to this
>> mailing-list.
>>
>> Is there anything else what I should do for including the MapTiler on
>> LiveDVD in this moment?
>>
>> What about the windows installer?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Klokan
>>
>> P.S.
>> To try it you should:
>>
>> 1. Start MapTiler by clicking the icon on the Desktop
>> 2. Load in the second step an example raster GEODATA (with georerence/srs)
>> 3. Go trough all the steps with 'Next' up to the Render
>> 4. Once the render is finished you can click in the GUI to open a
>> folder with tiles. When you open googlemaps.html or openlayers.html
>> then you see your geodata warped to the overlay of popular interactive
>> web maps as Google Maps.
>>
>> The map tiles are displayed directly from your disk. To publish the
>> map to Internet just upload the folder with tiles to any webserver or
>> Amazon S3.
>>
>> It is quite simple to use with a nice GUI, and therefore it is
>> attractive for the newbies in FOSS4G or anybody who is creating map
>> mashups with OpenLayers and Google Maps API and needs to overlay
>> existing raster geodata.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Cameron Shorter
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Klokan,
>>>
>>> If your application is stable, and we get it on in time, and it passes QA
>>> next week, then yes it is welcome on the disk.
>>>
>>> The steps for getting your application on the LiveDVD are outlined here.
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build
>>>
>>> In short, we are looking for you to write an installer script (by tomorrow)
>>> that we can run and install your application.
>>>
>>> As you already have a .deb file, it should be reasonably straight forward.
>>>
>>> From the LiveDVD point of view, we are memory constrained. In particular,
>>> any disk writes you do in your application, are written to memory. This
>>> might be limiting for a demo of a tiling application.
>>>
>>>
>>> We do plan to have windows installers on the live DVD, and I need to chase
>>> FrankW about what is done for that.
>>>
>>> klokan at gmail.com wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am the author of the open-source MapTiler application
>>>> (http://www.maptiler.org/) - I am going to have presentation about
>>>> this project at FOSS4G 2009.
>>>>
>>>> I will be very glad if the application can find the way to the
>>>> LiveDVD, which is going to be distributed in Sydney.
>>>>
>>>> There is a Windows installer downloadable at the address - I hope part
>>>> of the DVD is also Windows partition with installers for FOSS
>>>> projects.
>>>> http://maptiler.googlecode.com/files/maptiler-1.0-alpha3-setup.exe
>>>>
>>>> We prepared the Debian package - it correctly installs the MapTiler
>>>> application into Ubuntu. You can downloaded it here:
>>>> http://maptiler.googlecode.com/files/maptiler_1.0.alpha3_all.deb
>>>>
>>>> Depends: python (>=2.5), python-wxgtk2.8 (>=2.8), python-gdal (>=1.6)
>>>>
>>>> Where first two are standard part of the latest ubuntu and the last
>>>> one is part of the UbuntuGis project:
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis (personal archives provide the .debs)
>>>> - the important for us is the gdal package in version 1.6+.
>>>>
>>>> Are UbuntuGIS packages standard part of the LiveDVD?
>>>>
>>>> Let me know what I should do to include MapTiler onto the LiveDVD.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your assistance and effort related to the DVD.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Klokan Petr Pridal
>>>>
>>>> P.S.
>>>> There is also an installer for MacOSX, but I guess you will not have a
>>>> Mac section at the DVD...
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> --
>>> Cameron Shorter
>>> Geospatial Systems Architect
>>> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
>>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>>
>>> Think Globally, Fix Locally
>>> Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
>>> http://www.lisasoft.com
>>>       
>> --
>> http://blog.klokan.cz/
>> http://www.maptiler.org/
>> http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   


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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Systems Architect
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
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