Re: [Maposmatic-dev] Features from the Code Sprint?

[Dane Springmeyer]

Hi Thomas,

Nice to hear from you. Unfortunately I will not be available on IRC. I am 
traveling this week for my brothers wedding. I will be back and around on 
IRC/online again on the 2nd of April.

I can understand the severity of the issues. I promise to help next week when I 
am back. I think the halos problem is simply a caching issue in Mapnik. And the 
other issue is that the Cairo backend is not maintained well to keep up with 
rendering advances in AGG backend. Just create issues for what is blocking and 
we should be able to fix. 

Dane


On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Thomas Petazzoni <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello Dane,
> 
> To refresh your mind: I am Thomas Petazzoni, one of the developer of
> the MapOSMatic team. We are currently having a MapOSMatic hackfest in
> Rennes, France, with the goal of finally putting into production all
> the developments we have done on MapOSMatic over the last 1.5 year.
> 
> However, we have numerous issues with Mapnik: street name wrapping,
> rendering issues when we use Cairo scaling and translation, etc.
> 
> Would you have some time this week to have an IRC chat with us to
> discuss our issues?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Le Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:59:42 +0200,
> Dane Springmeyer <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
>> I am aware of:
>> 
>> http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/585
>> and
>> http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/586
>> 
>> Is there anything else on the Mapnik side that is causing any problems in 
>> the making live the new work?
>> 
>> If so please let me know.
>> 
>> Tom Hughes (Mapnik dev who added Cairo backend) will be at the upcoming 
>> http://mapnik.org/news/2010/sep/03/msc01/ and I am hoping we can talk over 
>> some of these Cairo issues in more detail.
>> 
>> Dane
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Kate,
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 19:27:37 -0400
>>> Kate Chapman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I was wondering what the plan was for the features from the code
>>>> sprint to be integrated into the main branch and released.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there anything I can do to help with this?  I tried to get things
>>>> running locally myself and ran into a couple problems.  I can help
>>>> with testing and what not if that is what the process needs.  I can
>>>> also ask questions about how to get things running as well.
>>> 
>>> Ah, please report the problems you had, that's very useful for us. For
>>> the moment, the result of the code sprint is available in special
>>> branches:
>>> 
>>> Branch ocitysmap2 for ocitysmap
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic/ocitysmap.git/log/?h=ocitysmap2
>>> 
>>> Branch ocitysmap2-integration for maposmatic
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic.git/log/?h=ocitysmap2-integration
>>> 
>>> At this time, what we need to do before publishing this new work :
>>> 
>>> * Switch to a newer server. Our current server has its disk full and
>>>  is no longer powerful enough to cope with the fast increase of OSM
>>>  data. We've been working for the last ~2 months on a newer server,
>>>  but had all sorts of problems and still having problems. We're
>>>  looking for alternate solutions, but they are not easy to find (we
>>>  need 8+ GB of RAM, 1 TB of fast disk).
>>> 
>>> * Review/integrate the work done by David Decotigny on street index
>>>  generation.
>>> 
>>> At that stage, we should be able to deploy the new version on
>>> dev.maposmatic.org, for a wider testing/debugging phase. 
>>> 
>>>> The new features will greatly simplify my life is why I'm asking.
>>> 
>>> Just curious, what are you using MapOSMatic for ? Which particular
>>> features are you interested in ?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Thomas
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> 
> 
> 
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