[Merkaartor] Merkaartor development

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

I've been using Merkaartor for some time now, and wanted to use the jsom-like 
links from osmose. Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any development for 
some time now, and the official site is down. Are there any news? I've found 
some repos on github, really outdated page on launchpad, but nothing new. Is 
the 
upstream dead?

Anyway, since it's working, I've added the feature for myself, you can find my 
forked tree here:

http://git.krakonos.org/?p=merkaartor.git;a=summary

I'd be happy to merge these changes into upstream, if there is any!

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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor development

[Ladislav Laska]

Thanks for your answers!

I've been tinkering with merkaartor for the last few days and I must say, it is 
nicely written. I have written custom tool/Interaction for it, and possibly 
fixed a long standing crash (not sure yet, needs more testing). 

I will let Chris know I would be glad to maintain the Merkaartor, although I 
won't have time to do anything big in the following months, only small features 
and possible bugfixes.

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 05:25:09PM +0100, Manuel Reimer wrote:
 On 12/09/2014 05:15 PM, Norbert Wenzel wrote:
  On 12/09/2014 04:57 PM, Ladislav Laska wrote:
  Is the upstream dead?
 
  Afaik it is. See the discussion[0] from March 2013 where Chris Browet
  asked for a new maintainer.
 
 Would be great if someone with the required knowledge could take over as 
 maintainer. Merkaartor was/is a really nice editor and has a few nice 
 features, I still miss in JOSM.
 
 Greetings
 
 Manuel
 
 
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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor development

[Ladislav Laska]

Thanks for the support! 

I've already contacted Chris about the maintainership, and he agrees. I'm 
working on taking the website back up, and have contacted the osm admins for 
the 
openstreetmap projects at github, as I'd like to move it there to use github's 
issue tracking. 

In the meantime, I pushed out qt5 branch on my private repo [1]. It took some 
doing, but now Merkaartor compiles against qt5 with only minor loss (the 
qtstyle 
plugins). It's work in progress and not really tested. If you feel adventurous, 
please try it out and report bugs (to my email, until I get github tracking up).

I will be merging fixes from other forks in the next few days, there are at 
least those with pull request at gitorious.

[1] http://git.krakonos.org/?p=merkaartor.git;a=summary



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Re: [Merkaartor] Help needed with Windows builds

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

thanks, I already searched the binary distributions: the one from Tamas Szekes 
seems to be VS only, and I really want to stick to open tools. 

The others do contain a LOT of stuff, for example apache server, and I can't 
install that on my dev computer, mostly due to security concerns (and I'm not 
the sole user anyway). It would be only temporary anyway, since I don't wan 
anyone who wants to compile merkaartor on windows to install something like 
that.

The second link you sent is R related, and I'm not sure if it's useful. I'll 
examine it.

I think the qt5 port is ready, and I'll merge it into master branch pretty 
soon.  
I wanted to wait for windows testing, but as I'm unable to do it with 
reasonable 
overhead right now, I'll probably just skip it (we can always compile with qt4 
for windows for some time, it's just I wanted to be qt5-ready, when it ships to 
most distros).

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 05:00:14PM +, Paul Bivand wrote:
 Hi
 
 Not offering to help personally, but the OSGEO site contains info on various 
 binary GDAL distributions.  
 https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries.
 
 Otherwise, the gdal/R link package rgdal 
 http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html
  includes a restricted range of gdal/ogr data formats. 
 
 These are differently built, some with Microsoft and some mingw compilers, 
 but 
 there are open-source projects that include gdal in their windows binaries. 
 
 There may also be some experience in the KDE field with Marble, where they 
 seem to be porting to qt5 as well, and have had some windows ports. 
 
 Good luck
 
 Paul Bivand
 
 
 On Sunday 18 Jan 2015 13:49:42 Ladislav Laska wrote:
  Hi!
  
  I've made some changes in the qt5 branch and think it is ready to be
  compiled on windows. Unforunately, I don't have the time (well, it's rather
  low priority) to set up the windows toolchain (especially gdal seems to be
  a bit stubborn).
  
  Maybe someone here has the toolchain ready and would be willing to try and
  compile the qt5 branch for windows? In the end I hope to have a script that
  makes the compilation pretty easy, like:
  
  1) Download Qt5 from qt and install it
  2) Run qt5-mingw shell, cd to merkaartor, and run a script that installs
  dependencies
  3) qmake  make
  
  I'm especially not sure how to do the dependency part, since gdal uses
  autotools, and qt environment does not seem to support autotools.
  
  I would love to use this to do nightly builds!
  
  Suggestions?
 
 
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[Merkaartor] Help needed with Windows builds

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

I've made some changes in the qt5 branch and think it is ready to be compiled 
on 
windows. Unforunately, I don't have the time (well, it's rather low priority) 
to 
set up the windows toolchain (especially gdal seems to be a bit stubborn). 

Maybe someone here has the toolchain ready and would be willing to try and 
compile the qt5 branch for windows? In the end I hope to have a script that 
makes the compilation pretty easy, like:

1) Download Qt5 from qt and install it
2) Run qt5-mingw shell, cd to merkaartor, and run a script that installs 
dependencies
3) qmake  make

I'm especially not sure how to do the dependency part, since gdal uses 
autotools, and qt environment does not seem to support autotools.

I would love to use this to do nightly builds!

Suggestions?

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[Merkaartor] Website other news

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

Thanks for Sven, I've revived the web page, and filled it with some up to date 
information. Let me know do you think, and what should be improved (spelling 
included, as I'm not a native speaker, as you may have already guessed).

Also, I did some work on the code, and managed to build under Windows (whee).  
Unforunately, there is a bug in qt, that causes merkaartor to crash when ran 
without debug info, so no downloads yet. But a fix is already commited and anew 
release should be here soon. I will wait for it, and craft an installer 
afterward.

I will release a new version when the Windows build is working fine, as I've 
fixed most crashes (sorry RM87, I still can't figure out what's going on in 
your 
case).

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Re: [Merkaartor] Fix for another deadlock

[Ladislav Laska]

Thanks, I've commited both patches!

 Hi,
 
 after digging in the code I've found a potential deadlock similar to
 the deadlock in src/Features/Relation.cpp in src/Features/Way.cpp.
 The attached patch resolves this.
 
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 diff -Naur ./orig/merkaartor/src/Features/Way.cpp 
 ./patched/merkaartor/src/Features/Way.cpp
 --- ./orig/merkaartor/src/Features/Way.cpp2015-03-23 22:18:17.0 
 +0100
 +++ ./patched/merkaartor/src/Features/Way.cpp 2015-04-01 03:40:05.0 
 +0200
 @@ -407,6 +407,8 @@
  p-Distance = 0;
  p-CalculateWidth();
  
 +MetaUpToDate = true;
 +
  p-NotEverythingDownloaded = false;
  if (lastUpdated() == Feature::NotYetDownloaded)
  p-NotEverythingDownloaded = true;
 @@ -449,7 +451,6 @@
  }
  
  p-doUpdateVirtuals();
 -MetaUpToDate = true;
  }
  
  qreal Way::distance()

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Re: [Merkaartor] Fix for a nasty crash

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

I've not seen this crash, but the fix seems reasonable.  It's now commited in 
git. Thanks for the contribution!

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Lutz Mändle wrote:
 Hi,
 
 the attached patch resolves a nasty crash issue in merkaartor. The crash 
 happens accidentally after downloading osm data at the end of the parsing 
 xml stage, before displaying the downloaded data.
 Running merkaartor under a debugger reveals, that there is sometimes a 
 problem 
 with the indexed access on the PossiblePainters in Feature.cpp, a QList 
 descendant.
 
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 Berlin/Germany
 

 diff -Naur ./orig/merkaartor/src/Features/Feature.cpp 
 ./patched/merkaartor/src/Features/Feature.cpp
 --- ./orig/merkaartor/src/Features/Feature.cpp2015-03-17 
 22:01:18.780704736 +0100
 +++ ./patched/merkaartor/src/Features/Feature.cpp 2015-03-17 
 20:57:45.0 +0100
 @@ -618,6 +618,7 @@
  if (!PossiblePaintersUpToDate)
  updatePossiblePainters();
  
 +QMutexLocker mutlock(theFeature-featMutex);
  CurrentPainter = NULL;
  PixelPerMForPainter = PixelPerM;
  for (int i=0; iPossiblePainters.size(); ++i)

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[Merkaartor] Windows testing needed

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

I've compiled a Windows version, that needs some testing. It's based on
the latest -git version, and is 64bit only (unforunately, 32bit version
does not work yet).

You can download it here:

http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.1-135-gc7c8c72.exe

If you have a 64bit windows, please, test it and let me know about bugs,
suggestions (even if you found none).

Also, if you feel like compiling from source, you can try msys2. But
only the 64bit debug version works (release requires patched Qt, due to
a bug that will be fixed in qt 5.4.2). The process is documented in
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Re: [Merkaartor] Windows testing needed

[Ladislav Laska]

 Does it matter if we point out shortcomings that had been there before?
 :-) I haven't done much mapping recently, but I truely liked Merkaartor
 best of all the available tools.

Not at all! I migrated some issues from the old database, but a lof them
were probably fixed (but not marked so), and some othere were missing
important data (mostly pictures with the problem), I left them out.

There is definitely a lot of stuff to do, and I would be glad to know
what users want. I will look into implementing some simpler things, but
the code needs some fixing before I'll start digging into the complex
parts. There are still some bugs (mostly race conditions I think)
lurking in the rendering, and the networking parts and OSM API are
currently way too fragile.

 Could you point to a github issue and (/or) to a Digia issue tracker
 please? I like reading up on stuff like this.

Sure, it's this one:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-39874


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Re: [Merkaartor] Failed to build on Mageia 4

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

 
 So I downloaded a current source file from Github and tried to follow 
 instructions.
 
 It builds, but will not build the plugins.
 
 Is there a simple guide to what sort of dependencies I need to load?

The plugins should not have additional dependencies. Does it give you a
compilation error? If so, please, post what it is. If it just does not
load plugins if you run it, here is why:

There is a bug that current git version searches plugins in wrong
path if you build and install it ('make release; make install'). I'm
working on a fix, but it is a bit more complex to do it right. I'll have
to come up with some solid solution.

You can still easily run plugins if you build the debug or release
version and run it from tree, that is without make install.

I'll post more info once I've found a good solution. I will probably
hack something in qmake that will change the plugin path just before
installing, so you can run release and debug versions from source tree.
I just don't know how :-)

 
 I presume there's a rpm specfile for the Mageia 18.1 versions somewhere. 
 
 I vaguely remember that somewhere on the old wiki there was a guide to 
 compiling, which I haven't found recently. 

Although I have it somewhere, it's not up to date anyway. I made some
incompatible changes to make development easier.

 Looks like Mageia will be on the QT4 version for a little while yet (the 5 
 version that is now at RC state has default KDE 4 with option for Plasma 5).
 
 Merkaartor does fit very well within my KDE system, unlike JOSM which I can't 
 just get my head around. I originally went with Merkaartor as my system was  
 low spec and running something that had the same system libraries made sense. 
 I have run Merkaartor successfully on an eeepc netbook. 

No problem, I'm not giving up on qt4 just yet. The qt4 will stick with
us for a while.


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Re: [Merkaartor] Failed to build on Mageia 4

[Ladislav Laska]

... I've pushed a change into branch plugins-dir (just execute git pull;
git checkout plugins-dir in the merkaartor tree to get it).

It should fix your problem for now, but it's not a final solution, as I
feel it's a bit clumsy. It also changes the default build to release,
and I can't seem to do anything about it (it actually changes to
whatever your qt build is). This will probably be permanent change, but
needs documenting.

On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 10:27:18PM +0200, Ladislav Laska wrote:
 Hi!
 
  
  So I downloaded a current source file from Github and tried to follow 
  instructions.
  
  It builds, but will not build the plugins.
  
  Is there a simple guide to what sort of dependencies I need to load?
 
 The plugins should not have additional dependencies. Does it give you a
 compilation error? If so, please, post what it is. If it just does not
 load plugins if you run it, here is why:
 
 There is a bug that current git version searches plugins in wrong
 path if you build and install it ('make release; make install'). I'm
 working on a fix, but it is a bit more complex to do it right. I'll have
 to come up with some solid solution.
 
 You can still easily run plugins if you build the debug or release
 version and run it from tree, that is without make install.
 
 I'll post more info once I've found a good solution. I will probably
 hack something in qmake that will change the plugin path just before
 installing, so you can run release and debug versions from source tree.
 I just don't know how :-)
 
  
  I presume there's a rpm specfile for the Mageia 18.1 versions somewhere. 
  
  I vaguely remember that somewhere on the old wiki there was a guide to 
  compiling, which I haven't found recently. 
 
 Although I have it somewhere, it's not up to date anyway. I made some
 incompatible changes to make development easier.
 
  Looks like Mageia will be on the QT4 version for a little while yet (the 5 
  version that is now at RC state has default KDE 4 with option for Plasma 5).
  
  Merkaartor does fit very well within my KDE system, unlike JOSM which I 
  can't 
  just get my head around. I originally went with Merkaartor as my system was 
   
  low spec and running something that had the same system libraries made 
  sense. 
  I have run Merkaartor successfully on an eeepc netbook. 
 
 No problem, I'm not giving up on qt4 just yet. The qt4 will stick with
 us for a while.
 
 
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Re: [Merkaartor] Kudos

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On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Toby Speight wrote:
 I've pulled last week's git changes, and I have to say that Merkaartor is
 the best I've seen for a long time.  I used to see concurrency-related
 crashes quite frequently (using 8-core processor), and then recently my
 work-flow was massively disrupted by issue 8.
 
 Now, both of those are fixed, and now Merkaartor is an awesome editor!

Thanks! Did you test issue 8? I've fixed some stuff that could be
related, but have not yet tested if it really is fixed.

 P.S. Anybody know how to stop builds trying to write libraries and
 binaries back to the source tree?  My Qt4 and Qt5 builds create their
 object files in their own trees, but both try to write back to source
 dir when linking.  This is obviously a nuisance when I end up with the
 program of one and the plugins of the other!

It's broken. I've pushed a new branch 'separate-build-dir', that enables
me to build in separate directory with 'mkdir build; qmake -r ..; make'.
The temporaries and binaries will be contained in the build directory,
and you can have as many as you like.

 P.P.S. I have a small improvement to the HTTP server which stops Iceweasel
 opening blank tabs when I mouse-2 on edit links.  I've not yet got to
 grips with GitHub - is it okay to post a small diff here for inclusion?

Sure, every patch counts!


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Re: [Merkaartor] Windows testing needed

[Ladislav Laska]

Found the problem! The platform plugin is not listed in the ldd/cygcheck
output. I added it to the installer, and changed to the proper path. The
build is the same as before.

The download link is the same.

http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.1-135-gc7c8c72.exe

On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:30:55PM +0200, Peter Conrad wrote:
 Ahoi Ladislav,
 
 I just gave it a try on my Win64 system. After installation it failed to 
 start with the message:
 This application failed to start because it could not find or load the 
 Qt platform plugin windows.
 I had installed and used Merkaartor before (version 0.17something). I 
 removed both and reinstalled the new one, same result...
 Btw, it should install to Program Files, not Program Files(x86) if it is 
 64bit. Could it be that this is the problem?
 Anyway, thanks for maintaining Merkaartor! I love it, although I didn't 
 map very much in the past months.
 
 Regards from Germany,
 
 Peter
 
 On 30.04.2015 20:59, Ladislav Laska wrote:
  Hi!
 
  I've compiled a Windows version, that needs some testing. It's based on
  the latest -git version, and is 64bit only (unforunately, 32bit version
  does not work yet).
 
  You can download it here:
 
  http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.1-135-gc7c8c72.exe
 
  If you have a 64bit windows, please, test it and let me know about bugs,
  suggestions (even if you found none).
 
  Also, if you feel like compiling from source, you can try msys2. But
  only the 64bit debug version works (release requires patched Qt, due to
  a bug that will be fixed in qt 5.4.2). The process is documented in
  INSTALL.
 

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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor on MacOS

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Sorry, I missed your response.

 Unfortunately not. I loaded a GPS track, downloaded the corresponding
 OSM data, moved a node and upon releasing the mouse button in the move
 operation it crashed. I did the same again but then everything worked.

Let me know if you do!

 
  Unfortunately, there are a lot of special cases for Mac, and they 
  have to be tested and tuned.
 Well. The same could be said about Linux as it diverges more and more
 off the UNIX paradigm... But that's an other topic. ;-)

That's true. It's not a problem of mac by itself, it's the way the code
is written. I think the Qt should handle most of the differences, and
that's why we have it. Take a look at git grep Q_OS_MAC. I hope to
eliminate most of them, and keep just a small bit in initialization due
to path differences.

 Fine. Thanks for caring about MacOS. But you should get a newer
 version of MacOS...

I tried installing some newer image into kvm virtual machine, but failed
horribly. I'd buy Mac for virtual machines, but it seems there are some
hacks needed even for a regular PC and I can't justify buying mac just
for a few builds.

 There is still one itch left: No Retina Display support. It seems the
 QT from MacPorts don't support it or something in Merkaartor needs
 tuning. Maybe I'll dig into this. But for now I am happy to have a
 native Merkaartor at all. :-)))

Merkaartor will need tuning, at least I think it will. High density
displays are supported since Qt5+.

Does it work at all? I think there are two possibilities: everything is
smaller than you would expect, or everything is nice and big, but
blocky, since the images are resizes (I'm not sure about the map).

I may be able to borrow a mac with retina to try, but I currently have
time to work on it, so it will have to wait. If you'd like to have a
dig, please, do!


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Re: [Merkaartor] Question about plugindir

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Hi!

I actually don't think it makes sense to do a make install on the
debug, and want it to be useful when running from the tree directly. 

Anyway, the plugin system probably needs some fixing anyway, especially
loading from multiple configurable directories.

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:24:34PM +0200, Lutz Mändle wrote:
 Hi,
 
 what is the intention of having the plugindir on an other location for a 
 debug build?
 
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[Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.2 release

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Hi!

It's been a long time, and as the Windows build is now working, I have decided
to release the 0.18.2, as a lot of bugs have been fixed and there was no
up-to-date Windows binary available. 

The announcement is at the website http://merkaartor.be/, downloads for Windows
are available at http://merkaartor.be/p/download . If you are a package
maintainer, please, do your stuff to include this new version :-)

I know there are still some bugs unresolved, some of them severe (like the
segfaults on upload/moving virtual nodes), but most of them are not easy fixed
and will require more time than I can afford to spend right now, as I'm leaving
for china for a month in about 2 weeks, and I'd rather not postpone the release
that long.

Please, do test the binary packages and report issues with them. I have tested
the 64bit and it looks OK, but I don't have 32bit machine at my hand. If we find
serious bugs, I'm prepared to roll out a 0.18.3 to fix them.

As always, report bugs at the github tracker -- including problems with the
installer.

Also, there is no MAC OS X release yet. Some of my attempts failed and I decided
to postpone this until I'm back, sometime in September. If anyone can offer
help, I'd be happy to assist with problems that might arise.

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[Merkaartor] Localization

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

I've decided to start some work on localization.

Some works is already done, but incomplete and sometimes the quality is poor (at
least in czech translation).

If you want to help translating Merkaartor into your language, I've mocked up a
short text on how to do it here:

http://merkaartor.be/p/docs/localization

Yeah, it needs improving. Please, do feel free to send me better one :-)

Anyway, do try to translate a few words, and tell me if transifex is working for
you, possibly if you'd prefer another tool (I've researched a bit, and transifex
seems the most popular and works).

Also, if you think the original English is wrong, just drop me an email, I'd be
happy to fix it!

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[Merkaartor] Back from china, almost ready to go

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Hi!

I'm back from China (and have a lot of gps tracks for mapping), and I'm mostly
ready to work. I noticed there is a lot of feature requests and bug reports.
I'll try to sort this out ASAP, but I'm not sure if I'll have time to do any
actual work this week, as I'm mostly doing what had to be done while I was in
china.

Please, do send more, I'll be happy to fix/implement them!

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[Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.3 release soon & 0.19 plan

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Hi!

I've decided to roll out 0.18.3 milestone later this month. The progress can be
seen on github milestone: 

https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/milestones/0.18.3

There isn't much, as I've been fixing crashes for some time now, and I hope I've
got them all. If you have a problem that you think should be fixed in 0.18.3, 
please, let me
know.

I will release source tarball and windows binary. I'm still looking for help
with apple images.

What's planned for 0.19? Mostly usability improvements:

  - Better relation explorer.
  - A new default rendering style, that will show more features and save us
time looking for guideposts etc.
  - Note API support
  - Geoimages support
  - Speed improvements, mostly in opening files, but import as well (a friend of
mine supplied me with some long 10Hz tracks, and it takes forever to
load/save them).

What's not planned:
  - Mostly stuff marked as 1.0.0 milestone, which is the "ultimate
milestone" for now. I haven't decided when to implement features listed 
in
there.

Feel free to post more suggestions here/on github.

Have a nice day, and happy new year!

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Re: [Merkaartor] Windows version for testing - Bing plugin

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Hi!

Thanks for testing, I'll take a look if I can reproduce the problem.

I think Bing sometimes does not draw anything if the tiles are not available at
the resolution (or possibly are empty? I haven't investigated closely). Could
this be the case?

The original logfile is not used anymore, as the handling code was causing a lot
of other problem. I will be replacing it by Qt logging infrastructure, but that
requires dropping older Qt versions and I want the 0.18.x series to stay Qt4
compatible. Some of the debug output is printed to standard output/error, but
it's not much, as I'm trying to keep it tidy.

You won't get anything on output if another merkaartor process is running (as it
will simply invoke the running process and quit itself), but i guess this is not
your case?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 04:25:44AM +, Totor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried  Merkaartor 0.18.2-74-g2bc386b-32bit on win xp 32 and win7 32 and  
> Merkaartor 0.18.2-73-g223ee66-64bit.exe on win7 64, and it looks like the 
> Bing Plugin is not working.
> 
> The Bing plugin not displaying any background. Tiles seem to be downloaded 
> (blue progress bar), but nothing is displayed.
> On the proxy/firewall server log, I can see the tiles are downloaded 
> correctly (HTTP result 200)
> 
> TMS tiles are working normally on both versions on the same computers.
> 
> The Bing plugin is ok  on ubuntu 64bit for both QT4 and QT5 (V0.18.2-74 
> compiled from git beginning february)
> 
> Am I the only one with this problem ?
> Is there a way to get a log file ?
> The log file remains empty, and I can not see any console info, even when run 
> from a cmd line, unlike in Ubuntu.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Totor
> 
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> >
> > Hi!
> > 
> > as I've been asked, here is a Windows snapshot of current
> > git:
> > 
> > http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.2-73-g223ee66-64bit.exe
> > 
> > I might fix one or two things, and if noone complains, do a
> > release during this
> > week.
>  [...]
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Re: [Merkaartor] UK Ordnance Survey GML files

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Hi!

I will download them. I suspect the large files will cause trouble.

You speak of tiles, but I can see only whole GB on the site. Do you have some
smaller piece extracted? If so, please, send it to me and I'll take a look.

I'll try to download the large file as well, and test it.

I'm not sure about GML, as I think they are handled by gdal, and gdal support
isn't what it should be. Though I have previously tested shapefiles, and they
worked relatively well (I had some trouble with certain projections).

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 06:00:44PM -, David Heaf wrote:
> Should merkaartor v0.18.2 be able to open the GML files of the UK Ordnance 
> Survey 'Terrain 50' OpenData downloadable at
> 
> https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/terrain-50.html
>  ?
> 
> then
> 
> https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
> 
> then selecting the 'Download' box by 'OS Terrain 50' and clicking 'Next',
> 
> then filling in the form, the captcha and clicking 'Continue'.
> 
> It gives UK GML data in 10 km squares. I could email the gml and xml files 
> from one square if someone is willing to test it.
> 
> Basically I am trying to find out the UK land area below the 300 m contour.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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Re: [Merkaartor] Windows version for testing

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Thanks! I hope you'll like it and in case you don't, report your findings on the
bug tracker (or here), so we can make it better ;-)

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 10:40:15 +0100, Ladislav Laska wrote:
> > as I've been asked, here is a Windows snapshot of current git:
> > http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.2-73-g223ee66-64bit.exe
> 
> As there hasn't been a lot of feedback on the list, let me say: I'm
> still interested!
> 
> I got away from OSM a few years ago and only just revisited it the last
> few months, and coped quite well with the web editors OSM now has to
> offer. I should probably test Merkaartor again with some tracks of
> mine, and see its advantages. (It had always been easier and better for
> me to use than the old web editors, than JOSM, and others.)
> 
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Re: [Merkaartor] Windows version for testing

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:40:10PM +0100, Francesco Cherubini wrote:
> I'd be happyto test it, but my only windows PCs are both 32 bit (company
> policy, I guess), and on one of those I don't have admin rights.
> Are you planning to release a 32bit version and a portable version as the
> previous maintainer used to do?

Sure, here you are:

http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.2-74-g2bc386b-32bit.exe

I won't be releasing a portable version (I didn't even know it existed) for now,
but if there is demand for it, I'll look into it.

You can install Merkaartor on a flash drive and have a crude portable version,
but your settings will still be stored locally.

Btw. I don't remember any code that would differentiate portable version, so
perhaps it was a simple copy of what gets installed?


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[Merkaartor] Windows version for testing

[Ladislav Laska]

Hi!

as I've been asked, here is a Windows snapshot of current git:

http://merkaartor.be/files/merkaartor-0.18.2-73-g223ee66-64bit.exe

I might fix one or two things, and if noone complains, do a release during this
week.

I'be been trying to get Mac OS X support back, but I've been failing (mostly due
to the fact that my Mac is too old, and new versions do not run in VMs well).

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Re: [Merkaartor] Unable to Import Shape File

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Hi!

It might be platform dependant, as in bug #95:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/issues/95

Shapefile is imported via GDAL, and the GDAL code is s rusty. Unfortunately,
I haven't had time to fix it yet.

If it's on linux, I'd try using different GDAL version (1.x if you're having
trouble with 2.x), as some interface has been changed and I might have made a
mistake in the 2.x port.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:52:57PM +, Toby Speight wrote:
> 0> In article 
> ,
> 0> PARTH LOYA  ("Parth") wrote:
> 
> Parth> I am using Merkaartor to convert shape file into osm file. I am
> Parth> trying to import the shape file but I am getting the following
> Parth> error -
> Parth>
> Parth> No Valid file
> Parth> xyz.shp could not be opened
> 
> It may be helpful to know a bit more about the file (e.g. projection,
> coordinate system etc.)  What does "ogrinfo -al -where null xyz.shp"
> report?
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[Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.3 release

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Hi!

I have just finished the Windows build and published the 0.18.3 release.
See http://merkaartor.be .

I had some issues with build system and had to make an alternative. I
also took the opportunity to get in a few last minute fixes.
Unfortunately, 0.18.3 tag was on another commit for some time and I hope
it won't cause anyone trouble. The changes were however non-critical and
mostly contained build stuff, so they should be equivalent.

I did some testing under Wine, and the Windows version looks fine. I
haven't tested much on real machines, so please let me know if you find
any issues.

Also, the Mac OS X build is mostly untested, as I don't have a real mac
(only a crappy and slow virtual machine). 

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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.3 release

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Yes, I expected some trouble. I didn't want to go the 0.18.3.1 way, as
I'm unsure what else would break with the next version number.

In the future, I will use x.y.z as major.minor.patch in hopes to release
new features with major/minor change and use patch for bug fixing
releases only.

By the way, are you doing builds for non-tagged commits? I'd be
interested in publishing a link to them, so that debian users can test
new versions without building. I have something like PPA in mind.

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 02:01:05PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 09/06/2016 01:38 PM, Ladislav Laska wrote:
> > I have just finished the Windows build and published the 0.18.3 release.
> > See http://merkaartor.be .
> > 
> > I had some issues with build system and had to make an alternative. I
> > also took the opportunity to get in a few last minute fixes.
> > Unfortunately, 0.18.3 tag was on another commit for some time and I hope
> > it won't cause anyone trouble. The changes were however non-critical and
> > mostly contained build stuff, so they should be equivalent.
> 
> The merkaartor Debian packages uses the git tag for the release tarball,
> I'll have to create a new one for modified tag now, because we cannot
> have upstream tarballs with the same version but different content.
> 
> In the future, don't modify published tags. Simply tag a new patch
> release (e.g. 0.18.3.1).
> 
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> 
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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.3 release

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I'll take a look into it, thanks!

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:34:19PM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 09/06/2016 02:46 PM, Ladislav Laska wrote:
> > Yes, I expected some trouble. I didn't want to go the 0.18.3.1 way, as
> > I'm unsure what else would break with the next version number.
> > 
> > In the future, I will use x.y.z as major.minor.patch in hopes to release
> > new features with major/minor change and use patch for bug fixing
> > releases only.
> 
> That sounds good.
> 
> > By the way, are you doing builds for non-tagged commits? I'd be
> > interested in publishing a link to them, so that debian users can test
> > new versions without building. I have something like PPA in mind.
> 
> No, I only package releases.
> 
> Please keep compatibility with the merkaartor packages in the main
> Debian & Ubuntu repositories in mind when you introduce merkaartor
> development packages via a PPA.
> 
> You can use the packaging maintained by the Debian GIS team as the base,
> and simply adjust the package version in debian/changelog accordingly
> (by appending a ppa suffix, or using pre-releases of the upcoming
> version, e.g. 0.19.0~dev).
> 
> I encourage you to maintain the packaging changes in a branch in the git
> repository used for the official Debian packages, where you'll benefit
> from peer-review of the packaging experts in the Debian GIS team.
> 
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> 
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Re: [Merkaartor] Merkaartor 0.18.3 release soon & 0.19 plan

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I think you're right. I'll pull the the translations, tag release and
run the machinery!

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 01/04/16 20:31, Ladislav Laska wrote:
> > I've decided to roll out 0.18.3 milestone later this month. The progress 
> > can be
> > seen on github milestone:
> >
> > https://github.com/openstreetmap/merkaartor/milestones/0.18.3
> 
> 0.18.3-rc1 has been out for some time now, and there are no open issues 
> for the milestone. Isn't it about time for the final release?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
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