Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-16 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi all, I just received a confirmation from Peter Briggs, the creator and contact person of CCP4's MapSlicer, that there is no conflict with the names since that is a utility under the CCP4 project. I think we are ok with the potential name. The poll is going to be open for 1 more hour.

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Angelos, My preference for names is: +1 CartoSlicer (due to less potential for conflict with other projects) +0 MapSlicer On 15/02/2015 2:05 am, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: If we feel that it would be more proper to rename, I agree, but it has to be fast in order to prepare for 8.5 release On

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com wrote: Le samedi 14 février 2015 13:24:42, Activity Workshop a écrit : If anyone would like to help with this, we now have a wiki page (thanks, Angelos!) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer There's another

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Activity Workshop
If anyone would like to help with this, we now have a wiki page (thanks, Angelos!) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer Anyone is welcome to fill something in in there, giving basic details and links. Also if anyone wants to make a start on the docs, the more hands the better! Regards,

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 14 février 2015 13:24:42, Activity Workshop a écrit : If anyone would like to help with this, we now have a wiki page (thanks, Angelos!) https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer There's another project named MapSlicer: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/html/mapslicer.html CartoSlicer seems

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
If we feel that it would be more proper to rename, I agree, but it has to be fast in order to prepare for 8.5 release On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: The project name is CCP4, mapslicer is just a utility name. Is this a major conflict? We have

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
The project name is CCP4, mapslicer is just a utility name. Is this a major conflict? We have already renamed everything in the source code: https://github.com/kalxas/mapslicer On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Even Rouault even.roua...@spatialys.com wrote: Le samedi 14 février 2015 13:24:42,

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-13 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi, On 02/13/2015 11:12 PM, Activity Workshop wrote: Hi, I've had a quick look at the MapTiler source, and I agree with those who think it should be _kept_ in osgeo if at all possible. It seems to work fine, it looks good, seems very useful and is one of those things that's easy to demo too

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-13 Thread Activity Workshop
Hi, I've had a quick look at the MapTiler source, and I agree with those who think it should be _kept_ in osgeo if at all possible. It seems to work fine, it looks good, seems very useful and is one of those things that's easy to demo too so it fits extremely well. All credit to Petr and the

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-12 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Petr, OSGeo-Live team, OSGeo Board, Is our OSGeoLive meeting, we discussed retiring of MapTiler from OSGeoLive. CCing OSGeo Board in discussion, in case the board wish to comment. Summary: * MapTiler was Open Source, and was included in prior OSGeo-Live distributions * Petr, the author,

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-12 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Cameron, We have also discussed that in order to remove the project, we request that there is an official source code repository to link to. This way we can prove that the project was open source and can be forked in the future. Unfortunately the main repository of the project was recently

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hi all, First of all I would like to thank Petr for his work on Maptiler. He has actually spent a lot of unpaid time to develop a tool which is useful for many users. Earning a living from open-source is hard - as most people who have tried will be able to tell you. Second I would like to point

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-09 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
-Original Message- From: live-demo-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:live-demo-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Johan Van de Wauw Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 3:46 AM To: live-demo Cc: Klokan Petr Přidal Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live Hi all, First

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-08 Thread Howard Butler
On Feb 7, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Klokan Petr Přidal klo...@klokan.cz wrote: - 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

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-07 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 07 février 2015 02:13:10, Angelos Tzotsos a écrit : Hi Even, On 02/07/2015 12:47 AM, Even Rouault wrote: Hi, My 2 cents: Looking at the install script in https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_maptiler.sh , I can see that the package should be

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-07 Thread Klokan Petr Přidal
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

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
On 02/07/2015 12:06 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Hi Angelos, Hamish and others, I'm +1 for removal of MapTiler from OSGeo-Live based on: 1. Request from the project owner to be removed 2. No change to released version of MapTiler to osgeolive since osgeolive 3.0 (5 years ago) This is not true,

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 7/02/2015 7:24 am, Cameron Shorter 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. Docs updated. Angelos, I'll let you comment MapTiler out of the

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Even Rouault
Le vendredi 06 février 2015 23:06:37, Cameron Shorter a écrit : Hi Angelos, Hamish and others, I'm +1 for removal of MapTiler from OSGeo-Live based on: 1. Request from the project owner to be removed 2. No change to released version of MapTiler to osgeolive since osgeolive 3.0 (5 years ago)

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Angelos, Hamish and others, I'm +1 for removal of MapTiler from OSGeo-Live based on: 1. Request from the project owner to be removed 2. No change to released version of MapTiler to osgeolive since osgeolive 3.0 (5 years ago) 3. As far as I can see, it looks like maptiler has moved to a pay

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi Even, On 02/07/2015 12:47 AM, Even Rouault wrote: Hi, My 2 cents: Looking at the install script in https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_maptiler.sh , I can see that the package should be downloaded from http://maptiler.googlecode.com/files/maptiler_1.0.beta2_all.deb

[Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
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,