Bug#813197: RFP: nik4 -- Mapnik to image export

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Because OSGeo-Live is now including nik4 in its osm installer, there is
more need for a nik4 package.

Upstream does not tag releases yet, but is considering it now that
OSGeo-Live includes it, so that latest git snapshot has been packaged.

Packaging is available in the Debian GIS git repository:

 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/nik4.git

The package has also been uploaded but will need to pass the NEW queue.

Kind Regards,

Bas

Bug#813197: RFP: nik4 -- Mapnik to image export

[Bas Couwenberg]

Hi Carlo,

We'd be happy to have nik4 alongside mapnik in the Debian GIS team, but we are 
low on manpower, so I'd to guide you or someone else with packaging, but we are 
unlikely to be able to provide this package without additional contributors.

Please refer to the Debian GIS policy and related documentation for information 
on the packaing workflow.

https://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/policy/

Kind Regards,

Bas

Bug#813197: RFP: nik4 -- Mapnik to image export

[Carlo Stemberger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: nik4
  Version : git
  Upstream Author : Ilya Zverev 
* URL : https://github.com/Zverik/Nik4
* License : WTFPL
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Mapnik to image export

Nik4 is a mapnik-to-image exporting script. It requires only mapnik-python
bindings.

Nik4 takes great care to preserve values you feed it. If you say you
need a 800×600 image, it won't take a pixel less or more. It won't
shrink a bounding box or distort lines when specifying so called "scale
factor". When you need a 300 dpi image, you tell it --ppi 300 and can be
sure you will get what you intended.

Also it can use real-world units, that is, millimeters (and prefers to).
Specify dimensions for printing, choose bounding box and ppi scale — and
the result won't disappoint. Options are intuitive and plenty, and you
will be amazed how much tasks became simpler with Nik4.