[OSM-dev] Notes - OSM improvements BoF at SOTM PDX
Dane Springmeyer
dane at dbsgeo.com
Tue Oct 16 01:32:08 BST 2012
On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> - How could the Mapnik style be more open to improvements? We definitely need to get it on GitHub.
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> I'm happy to move this from svn to git but I'd like the team that look after it to buy into that first.
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> One of the problems here is that the person that leads this effort is primarily a cartographer rather than a developer, and is also on Windows which tends to lead to various technology issues.
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> I believe I'm right in saying that he doesn't have a working test setup at the moment since we moved to mapnik 2 and we need to sort that out but equally moving to git may be an issue because I believe Windows support in git is a bit patchy.
Yes, this is my understanding as well. It is on my task list to get a Windows build (with python bindings - that is the missing piece right now) going of Mapnik 2.1 for Steve. Many other people have been asking for this. RE: Git: I've found git support (via msysgit installer) on Windows quite solid, so would be happy to help with that as well if it becomes an issue.
Dane
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