Re: OpenStreetMap tile rendering stack in debian-gis
I think this is a great idea to have a simple way to get rendering.
Also it would be nice to be able to select regions that you want to
render via some package, lets say I am in kansas, imagine if there was
a package like debian-region-us-ks that you could install to subscribe
to updates in that area.
mike
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Kai Krueger <kakrueger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> currently it is not easily possible to set up a map rendering tile stack
> with only official debian packages for the default OSM tile rendering stack
> (mod_tile, renderd, osm2pgsql), as not everything is packaged or is a little
> out of date.
>
> - Mapnik is currently packaged in version 2.0.0 (sid), whereas the current
> upstream is 2.1 (Released August 2012). With the default OSM stylesheet soon
> to move over to requiring mapnik 2.1 and the popular style designer tilemill
> also seemingly requiring mapnik 2.1, it would be good to get mapnik updated
> to 2.1 in debian-gis.
>
> - mod_tile[1] and renderd or tirex aren't included in debian at all. It
> would be very helpful if it wasn't necessary to have to compile these from
> source or rely on PPAs (which are only available for Ubuntu and not Debian)
>
> - osm2pgsql seems to not have been updated to a new upstream release in a
> year and it would be nice to get a newer upstream release into debian, as
> there have been a couple of new features and bug fixes since then.
>
> - osmosis also could do with an update to the latest upstream release.
>
> - Tilemill [2] is not currently packaged in debian-gis. It is a nice tool
> for designing mapnik rendering styles and makes it fairly easy to create
> your own interesting map styles.
>
> I would like to help improve the situation and get all the packages
> up-to-date. Particularly, though, I would like to help get mod_tile and
> renderd (for which I am the upstream maintainer) packaged and into
> debian-gis (and from there on into Ubuntu).
>
> What would be the best way to help with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kai
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile
> [2] http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
>
>
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