[Live-demo] TileMill Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Form
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sat Dec 22 12:31:20 PST 2012
Thanks Javi,
Based on Javi's responses, and also that I understand from Brian Hamlin
that an installer has already been written, I'm +1 for including
TileMill as part of the OSM tools that we include on OSGeo-Live.
I can see from responses that this project is well established, and has
a strong user community behind it.
On 21/12/12 18:54, Javi Sanchez wrote:
> 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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>>
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