[OSGeoLive] Proposing t-rex vector tile server

Tue Jun 11 04:57:54 PDT 2019

Hi all,

+1 for me too

Bests,

Nicolas

Le dim. 9 juin 2019 à 19:55, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> Just a reminder that Pirmin has already submitted the documentation
> needed for 13.0 and the pull request is pending:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/444
>
> Motion to accept t-rex in OSGeoLive 13.0:
> My +1,
> Angelos
>
> On 8/13/18 12:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> > Dear Pirmin,
> >
> > Thank you for the details!
> > Strong +1 from me to add t-rex to OSGeoLive.
> >
> > I see a pull request in place already:
> > https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/232
> >
> > Since we are very close to the release of 12.0 version, perhaps we should
> > include t-rex without adding the documentation yet, since our translators
> > will have zero time to translate until release. In any case, for 13.0 we
> > would need a project overview and a quickstart.
> >
> > Best,
> > Angelos
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:35 AM Pirmin Kalberer <pi_ml at sourcepole.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Referring to https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/ticket/1881, I'm
> proposing
> >> adding t-rex to OSGeo Live.
> >>
> >> Description:
> >>
> >> - What is its name?
> >>
> >> t-rex
> >>
> >> - What is the home page URL?
> >>
> >> https://t-rex.tileserver.ch/
> >>
> >> - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
> >>
> >> MIT
> >>
> >> - What does the application do and how does it add value to the
> >> GeoSpatial? stack of software?
> >>
> >> t-rex is a standalone vector tile server supporting PostGIS and GDAL
> >> datasources.
> >>
> >> - 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.
> >>
> >> t-rex supports OGC simple feature data (plus ISO curves) and vector tile
> >> output in OGC WMTS compatible grids.
> >>
> >> - What language is it written in?
> >>
> >> Rust (https://www.rust-lang.org/)
> >>
> >> - Which version of the application should be included in the next
> >> OSGeo-Live release?
> >>
> >> 0.9.0
> >>
> >>
> >> Stability:
> >>
> >> - 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?
> >>
> >> Known users are a national ornithological institute, real estate
> >> companies and public transport organisations. There was user feedback at
> >> FOSS4G conferences from national cadastral and mapping authorities about
> >> their use of t-rex for creating vector tiles.
> >>
> >> - Open HUB provides metrics to help assess the health of a project. Eg:
> >> http://adhoc.osgeo.osuosl.org/livedvd/docs/en/metrics.html Could you
> >> please ensure that your project is registered with Open HUB, and Open
> >> HUB has been updated to reference the correct code repository(s) for
> >> your project. What is the Open HUB URL for your project?
> >>
> >> https://www.openhub.net/p/t-rex-tileserver
> >>
> >> - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this by
> >> mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
> >>
> >> Download statistics:
> >>
> >>
> https://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=t-rex-tileserver&repository=t-rex
> >> Total Downloads: 1,440 -  278 hub.docker.com pulls.
> >> Communication is currently limited to Github and personal feedback to
> >> presentations at conferences.
> >>
> >> - What is the size of your developer community?
> >>
> >> Main application: 1 main committer, 8 code contributors
> >> Web-UI: 2 main committers
> >> rust-postgis: 2 main committers, 4 code contributors
> >> rust-gdal: 2 main committers, 9 code contributors
> >>
> >> - Do you have a bug free, stable release?
> >>
> >> Releases since 0.6.0 are considered production ready.
> >>
> >> - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
> through.
> >>
> >> There is a built-in test suite which is automatically executed on Travis
> >> CI.
> >>
> >> - How long has the project has had mature code.
> >>
> >> The first public release was 2016-08-17 and version 0.6.0, which is
> >> considered production ready, was released 2016-11-07.
> >>
> >>
> >> - 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.)
> >>
> >> t-rex is an application with a command line interface and a built-in
> >> web-based 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.
> >>
> >> There were t-rex specific FOSS4G presentations and vector tile
> >> presentations covering t-rex among others.
> >>
> >>
> >> - 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.
> >>
> >> Pirmin Kalberer
> >>
> >> - 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
> >>
> >> Deb Package for Ubuntu is available.
> >>
> >>
> >> Installation:
> >>
> >> - 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?
> >>
> >> ~13MB for application binary
> >>
> >>
> >> - 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.
> >>
> >> Examples are based on Natural Earth dataset.
> >>
> >> - 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?
> >>
> >> A Windows installer (MSI) is available. For Mac there is a binary only.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Pirmin
> >>
> >> --
> >> Pirmin Kalberer - @implgeo
> >> Sourcepole - http://www.sourcepole.com
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> >
>
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> Charter Member
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
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