Hi everybody, Let me clarify the situation:
- The original MapTiler (python + wxWidgets) is discontinued and unfortunately it failed as an open-source project in my eyes. The software attracted quite a lot of end users, but no 3rd party developers. There was not a single commit from any third-party ever to the MapTiler project code itself, probably because the graphical utility was used mostly by non-programmers. The otherwise great project stalled for some time. I have not seen how to move it forward without any financial support, while not being a student anymore - and it made me really sad. - Since 2011, I work with my team on a completely new implementation of an efficient tiling utility, the new MapTiler usable both from the command-line as well as from the graphical user interface, written in C++ and QT. It is significantly faster, merges multiple files in different srs, handles correctly dateline crossing and world maps, tiles in non-mercator grids, it directly produces small and optimized jpg and pngs, it is compatible with OGC WMTS, contains uploader to Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage, supports different layers on different zoom levels (see http://goo.gl/TCrGtQ and other tutorials), and it comes with many other new features, with installers, regular updates, support and maintenance. It runs on Win/Lin/Mac - see http://www.maptiler.com/ for more information. With my colleagues we are trying to do our job as good as we can. It is a complete rewrite of the original utility, fixing design flaws and implementation issues of both GDAL2Tiles and original MapTiler. To be able to support the utility and to work on new features we ask for a license fee. - There was no financial support from Google Summer of Code nor from OSGeo on the original MapTiler. - Both my Google SoC in 2007 and 2008 were on the GDAL2TIles command-line utility, lead by Howard. My original GDAL2Tiles from 2007 is available at http://www.klokan.cz/projects/gdal2tiles/ and the version from 2008 is distributed together with GDAL library, with patches and some fixes, mostly from Evan. As Even pointed out - I started to work on the MapTiler during August 2008, after the second SoC. BRGM mentioned in the code of GDAL2Tiles.py supported improvements of GDAL2Tiles, not MapTiler project. - As the sole author of MapTiler and the owner of the MapTiler trademark I would like to request complete removal of the MapTiler from the OSGeo LiveDVD. I have prepared the existing .deb package as well as supplied the quickstart and installation scripts to the svn about 5 years back. - If anybody is interested to revive my original open-source project published under an open-source license, he is welcomed to do that - under the conditions of the original license, while preserving the original copyright notice, and under the condition his fork of the project is not anymore called MapTiler and does not use original graphical elements and desktop icon of the original application. - The existence of the two projects of the same name is confusing the people and I want to avoid it. I hope you respect my decision. The old MapTiler is dead, long live the MapTiler! ;-) - I continue to work on several other open-source projects and with my team I keep developing, contributing and improving on OL3Cesium, OpenLayers V3, WebGL Earth, EPSG.io, IIPImage, GDAL and other projects. See our github and blog for details: http://www.klokantech.com/. Open-source is indeed very powerful and viable on components and I can't imagine to live without it. Still, there are situations, where it is simply not applicable. I am proud to be part of OSGeo and I am keen to continue to contribute to the community in future. I admire and honor people like Frank or Evan and others. You have my true respect for what you do and what you have achieved! Best regards, Petr Pridal, Ph.D. Klokan Technologies GmbH P.S. If anybody is interested in even more background of the evolution of MapTiler you can read: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/maptiler/r9Xa8S_S4Z8/7pJoqKR1MM0J On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:24 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had a request from the MapTiler project to have it removed from > OSGeo-Live. > > I've raised a ticket: > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1467 > > I'll look after updating the docs. > > -- > Cameron Shorter, > Software and Data Solutions Manager > LISAsoft > Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, > 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 > > P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://live.osgeo.org > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc > -- http://blog.klokan.cz/ http://www.maptiler.org/ http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
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