[OSM-dev] helping #switch2osm

[Matthias Meißer]

Am 17.01.2012 12:53, schrieb Jukka Rahkonen:
> ...
> About 80% of people seem to use Windows and OSM does not offer much for
> them so I desided to make Super Easy WMS as a Windows installation
> package. Linux users do not need to get angry, it is possible to install
> Apache and Mapserver on Linux and take just the data and mapfiles from the
> package and after some mapfile editing for fixing the paths to the data
> the services will work similarly.
>
> I know that Mapnik has a steady position as the official OSM renderer but
> while waiting for an easy Switch2osm installer, read about Super Easy WMS
> server at http://latuviitta.org/documents/Super_easy_WMS_server.pdf
>
> The introduction package is downloadable at
> http://hip.latuviitta.org/tiedostot/Latuviitan_superhelppo_WMS_OSM_versio.zip
> (226 MB)
>
> The package is rather big because it includes the Geofabrik shapefiles
> from Finland. After installation there will be three WMS services
> available and WMS clients will find them from the following addresses
>
> http://localhost:8060/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=d:/ms4w/osm_maps/osm_wms.map
>
> http://localhost:8060/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=d:/ms4w/Geofabrik_shapes_maps/osm_wms.map
>
> http://localhost:8060/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=d:/ms4w/Suomi_shapes_maps/osm_wms.map

Sounds great and remembers me to the OSGeo4W Installer 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo4W

Can we provide a documentation, in the wiki please? As it's the most 
central place and allows everybody to fix/alter/translate/... the text? 
And it could be easily linked within the other wiki pages
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=OSM-Mapserver&action=edit

As I read, easy to deploy packages (right versions and so on) are one of 
the most caveeats for a Rendering-stack. Do we have people with 
experience in linux package bundling or should we contact the different 
distros for help?

bye
Matthias
(user:!i!)