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Kais Ubuntu tile server package is really easy to install (one
serious caveat there) I don't think it will get a lot simpler than
that even with substantially more work.<br>
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The install instructions are simple and work (again that caveat),
what is a bit lacking is post-install documentation (essentially
mod_tile, renderd and osm2pgsql). <br>
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The big caveat I have is not specific to Kais package, it is the
general issue that we have no release engineering/testing for a
number of our tools. This bites particularly hard when something is
supposed to be plug and play and you are not aware that you are
essentially just running the latest development version with a
couple of changes that might work.<br>
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If we really want to make things easier for third parties we are not
going to get around having substantially more discipline in our
software release procedures (and having such in the first place).<br>
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Simon <br>
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Am 12.01.2012 23:06, schrieb Mikel Maron:
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<div><span>Hi</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Over the past couple days,
I gave some assistance to someone setting up their own tile
infrastructure. They mostly got along on their own,
following </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server"
style="font-size: 12pt; ">http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server</a>,
and picking through the wiki, but they definitely could've had
an easier time.<br>
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<div>And we should expect more of this soon, and we want this!
Nestoria and StreetEasy switching, the Wired article. Just the
beginning. </div>
<div>How do we help folks get their tile servers up and running
even easier. Here's some suggestions we discussed...</div>
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<div>1) Clear instructions, at an easily findable address
(outside the wiki, which is hard to follow) (anyone register
switch2osm.com? or tryosm.org). Should include some
description of the different options, with links for getting
into the details ... but at least a clear guide through the
well worn path of setting up a tile server.</div>
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<div>2) A packaged solution, like a chef recipe, to install
everything needed.</div>
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<div>3) A VM image for an open source virtualization package,
that has everything installed. May not necessarily be for
production, but at least make it easy to try things out.</div>
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<div>4) ....</div>
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<div>Would the EWG be the place to get this together?</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
<div>Mikel</div>
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<div>== Mikel Maron ==<br>
+14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron</div>
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