Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Dane Springmeyer
> For instance for Tirex I applied such a patch: > > Index: backend-mapnik/Makefile > === > --- backend-mapnik/Makefile (revision 29404) > +++ backend-mapnik/Makefile (working copy) > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > INSTALLOPTS=-g root -o roo

[OSM-dev] announcing a new mailinglist tile-serving

2013-03-27 Thread Kai Krueger
Hello everyone, I would like to announce a new OSM mailinglist called tile-serving [1] to discuss and aid the development of the OSM tile serving infrastructure. Its purpose is modelled after the rails-dev, geocoding or osrm mailinglists that already exist. One of its primary purposes is to

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Bernard Fouché
Le 27/03/2013 19:13, Pieren a écrit : On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Andy Allan wrote: So think twice before telling a new user that they should start editing wiki pages. Instead of 'new user', I would say 'the end users, those from whom the documentation is intended'. Since the devs do not

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Kai Krueger
Andy Allan wrote > On 27 March 2013 14:09, Pieren < > pieren3@ > > wrote: > >> OSM data & tools are mostly developed by volunteers on their free >> time. > > And I'm sure we all strive to make high-quality tools. If someone > encounters bugs, like crashes and broken documentation, then even jus

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Andy Allan wrote: > So think twice before telling a new user that they should start > editing wiki pages. Instead of 'new user', I would say 'the end users, those from whom the documentation is intended'. Since the devs do not take a high priority to keep the wik

[OSM-dev] PPA vs 64bit IDs

2013-03-27 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
On 3/27/2013 2:03 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: Well, for Ubuntu I have created the PPA packages as linked to on switch2osm.org. Those try and take care of all the necessary steps as much as possible. To the extent even that they make many default decision on things and do other "magic setup steps" w

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Kai Krueger
On 03/27/2013 03:12 AM, Bernard Fouché wrote: Le 26/03/2013 17:16, Kai Krueger a écrit : There have been some major refactorings a couple of days ago in mod_tile / renderd to support new storage backends. That is when the error you reported got introduced. So if you take a snapshot from prio

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Andy Allan
On 27 March 2013 14:09, Pieren wrote: > OSM data & tools are mostly developed by volunteers on their free > time. And I'm sure we all strive to make high-quality tools. If someone encounters bugs, like crashes and broken documentation, then even just being told by email is valuable, or logging t

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Sven Geggus
Bernard Fouché wrote: > My time was mostly spent because of the lack of stable releases and > documentation related to package versions, quirks here and there (for > instance when making Tirex there is no check of what perl packages are > already available Hm, this is at least kind of a distr

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Bernard Fouché
Le 27/03/2013 15:09, Pieren a écrit : On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bernard Fouché wrote: My time was mostly spent because of the lack of stable releases and documentation related to package versions, quirks here and there (for instance when making Tirex there is no check of what perl packag

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Bernard Fouché wrote: > My time was mostly spent because of the lack of stable releases and > documentation related to package versions, quirks here and there (for > instance when making Tirex there is no check of what perl packages are > already available, you dis

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Bernard Fouché
Le 27/03/2013 10:39, yvecai a écrit : For the record, methods described in http://switch2osm.org works rather well, thanks to Kai's packages. Maybe packaging work could be shared with https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis too. I somewhat would expect better results in building an osm tool-chain on

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread yvecai
For the record, methods described in http://switch2osm.org works rather well, thanks to Kai's packages. Maybe packaging work could be shared with https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis too. I somewhat would expect better results in building an osm tool-chain on a debian-based system (Ubuntu), maybe

Re: [OSM-dev] mod_tile stable version ?

2013-03-27 Thread Bernard Fouché
Le 26/03/2013 17:16, Kai Krueger a écrit : There have been some major refactorings a couple of days ago in mod_tile / renderd to support new storage backends. That is when the error you reported got introduced. So if you take a snapshot from prior to March 23rd it should be more stable. How

[OSM-dev] Seeking Project Ideas for GSoC

2013-03-27 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, The application deadline for GSoC is in a few days (March 29th). We could use a few more project ideas to round things out: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Project_Ideas Do you have any? Please add them to the wiki. Ones you are interested in mentoring would