Re: OpenStreetMap tile rendering stack in debian-gis
Hello,
I'd like to bring this up again to help move things along...
On 04/19/2013 02:45 PM, David Paleino wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:56:21 -0600, Kai Krueger wrote:
>
>> - 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.
>
> I haven't updated it just because of the freeze.
Mapnik 2.2 is now out and Debian is out of the freeze. So it would be
nice if this could now me updated. By the looks of it, there is
different thread talking about this already though and looking for a
sponsor for the package? So that is great.
>
>> - 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.
>
> I'll update these two ASAP. Been busy with real life issues, and
> haven't had much requests to update them. Now I have one :)
Great. If there is something I can do to help, that would be good.
If you do update the package for osm2pgsql, you probably want to use
the 0.82 tag in the repository, as that version is thought to be
stable. We have recently started using tagged versions to help
distinguish between stable snapshots and more experimental ones.
>
>> - 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've been struggling with this for more than one year; I've been
> packaging LOTS of nodejs modules to make it work, and it still
> didn't, last time I tried. I think I gave up on this, making things
> consistent with nodejs "things" is _officially_ a mess (i.e. nodejs
> upstream DISCOURAGES using system-wide libraries, but instead
> encourages embedding modules -- which is not what we want).
>
>> 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).
In order to help get mod_tile and renderd into the repositories, I
have now built a set of packages and uploaded them to
mentor.debian.net (
http://mentors.debian.net/package/libapache2-mod-tile ).
I am not yet particularly experienced with packaging, so I would
appreciate any feedback to help ensure it meets all the requirements
and help finding a sponsor.
>
> I think pkg-osm could be a good candidate as well :)
Yes, that sounds like it would be a good candidate. I wasn't aware of
that until you pointed it out. Should I cross post this email to that
list too?
Thanks,
Kai
>
> Kindly, David
>
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