[Live-demo] TileMill Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Form

Javi Sanchez jsgisdev at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 23:54:34 PST 2012 

Hi,

Following the instructions at 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply , we have filled in the 
requiered information to apply for TileMill to be included in the Disc.

Find answers either bellow or at [1]

[1] 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlRFyY1XenjJdHZpZTJLcHNITHMwNG5wZWgxQXkxcFE

Regards,

Javi Sánchez
Capitulo Hispanohablante OSGeo (Madrid)


- TileMill Live_GIS_Disc_Apply -

          What is its name?    TileMill
         What is the home page URL?    http://tilemill.com
         Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?    BSD
         What does the application do and how does it add value to the 
GeoSpatial stack of software?    TileMill is a tool to quickly and 
easily design maps for the web using custom data. It is built on the 
powerful open-source map rendering library Mapnik ( the same software 
OpenStreetMap and MapQuest use to make some of their maps ) and uses 
CartoCSS as a stylesheet language.
         Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions 
of the standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about 
how standards are used.    TileMill does not support any OGC standards, 
like WMS or WFS. Rather it adhers the widespread practices of z/x/y tile 
schemes used by Google and OSM and is based on the MBTiles and UTFGrid 
specifications.
         What language is it written in?    JavaScript - Uses Node.js on 
the serverside and shares some backbone.js models on the clientside
         Which version of the application should be included in the next 
OSGeo-Live release?     0.10.1

     Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user 
finds a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all 
other OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the 
following answers):
         If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application 
into production, it would imply that these organisations have verified 
the stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to 
production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please 
mention some of these organisations?    TileMill can be both used as a 
Desktop GUI tool and a serverside/command line rendering engine. In both 
forms is has been used by many organizations in production. MapBox uses 
it to render global baselayers down to z17 (mapbox-streets), NPR used it 
to make the census map: http://apps.npr.org/fire-forecast/, and many 
more examples: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/gallery/
         What is the size of the user community? You can often answer 
this by mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email 
list?    New releases usually see 10-15 thousand downloads
         What is the size of your developer community?    10 Developers
         Do you have a bug free, stable release?    Every release 
becomes more stable, 0.10.1 is the most stable yet.
         Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone 
through.    TileMill has unit tests as well as many of the libraries it 
depends upon
         How long has the project has had mature code.     Several years

     OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather 
than libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a 
command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an 
exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project 
Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a user 
interface.)     TileMill is a map design studio desktop application that 
users can interact with by means of its graphical user interface.

     We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which 
are presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved in 
OSGeo Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then 
please mention it.     "- TileMill is not an incubated project at present.
- It was present at FOSS4G 2011
- Workshop at Girona (Spain) GIS Open Source 2011 venue
- Next FOSS4g 2013 paper: 
http://foss4g-na.org/schedule/cartography-with-tilemill-postgis-and-openstreetmap/"

     With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core 
packagers do not have the time to liaise with every single project email 
list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to 
take responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's 
communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install 
scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each 
OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and 
Quickstart documentation works as expected on release candidate releases 
of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.     Javier 
Sánchez

     OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
         Install from UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
         Install .deb files from a PPA
         Write a custom install script             Write a custom 
install script

     Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.     
Application is installed by means of an Ubuntu PPA

     OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run 
in 512 Meg of RAM?     YES

     How much disk space will be required to install the application and 
a suitable example application?     146.3MB on disk

     We aim to reduce disk space by having all applications make use of 
a common dataset. We encourage applications to make use of the example 
datasets already installed:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If 
another dataset would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it 
appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may already be 
included in the standard release.    ok, Current datasets are 
appropriate, as OSM and PostGIS examples can be managed from TileMill. 
On the other hand, example projects are also included.

     Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available 
under a CC By and a Quickstart available under a CC By-SA license. (You 
may release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?     YES

     In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for 
some applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future 
releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include 
Windows and/or Mac installers?     Yes indeed, as Installations from Mac 
OS X and Windows are available


El 14/12/12 00:16, Cameron Shorter escribió:
> Javi,
> This was discussed at this week's weekly meeting, and we were 
> reasonably supportive of this proposal. Could you please make an 
> official application, answering our standard questions for including a 
> new application, which will allow us to make a better assessment.
>
> The questionnaire is here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply
>
> On 14/12/12 09:32, Javi Sanchez wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As Volunteer to maintain OSM apps, this is to suggest a last minute 
>> change to switch to TileMile instead of osmarender, within current 
>> release 6.5. I have confirmed that the installing script is already 
>> available, and I would be ready to write the overview/quickstart over 
>> the next 1 month, according to the planned milestones.
>>
>> I would like to know your opinions or if there is any inconvenience 
>> we may have to discus or take into account.
>>
>> This can significantly improve the capabilities to exploit OSM data 
>> and It may be worth it.
>>
>> Best Rergards,
>>
>> Javi Sánchez
>> Capitulo Hispanohablante OSGeo (Madrid)
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