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 <[email protected]> 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 out of date.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/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 Free Software Foundation Europe Fellow http://fsfe.org/support/?h4ck3rm1k3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caf0qkv0u_go6_watr1axdc9m84tw+amj6fxwl7zgkepvgyh...@mail.gmail.com
