[Live-demo] TileMill Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Form
Brian Hamlin
maplabs at light42.com
Sat Dec 22 15:51:16 PST 2012
strong support for TileMill
+1
On Dec 22, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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