[wdmmg-dev] OKF Mapping infrastructure / Mapnik Server

Tue Jun 21 12:56:11 UTC 2011

My feeling is this is interesting but would be on our immediate roadmap.

So we'd only go ahead if someone is willing to do this in "their" time (and
that does not detract from other stuff we need to do) *and* someone would
volunteer to sysadmin this.

Also what kind of machine would this require? We already have quite a
complex sysadmin (and increasingly costly) sysadmin setup. Always want to
allow people to "just do stuff" but we're getting to a point where we need
more (volunteer) sysadmin if we are to take on more services ...

Rufus

On 20 June 2011 19:14, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when Gregor dropped by in Berlin last Week, one of the pet projects we
> discussed was setting up a Mapnik server for OKF. This could be used
> to dynamically generate tiles and vector maps for OpenSpending but
> also for other projects (HyperNotes, CKAN WFS overlays, etc....).
> Mapnik seems to be a kind of "set up once and run for a lot of things"
> infrastructure and Gregor wants to lead on the setup.
>
> Would it be possible for OKF to allocate a machine for this purpose?
> It probably doesn't yet directly contribute to any projects but I can
> see it being used from OpenSpending etc. very soon. Also it would be
> lots of fun.
>
> - Friedrich
>
> p.s. Gregor also points out Wikipedia UK SVG maps are terrible. Close
> your eyes and think of England!
>

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