[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#535221: Bug#535221: osm2pgsql: consider including 900913.sql in the package?

[Andreas Putzo]

On Jul 01  23:06, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andreas Putzo <andreas at putzo.net> writes:
> > it would give weird results with mapnik. I will add this file as an example
> > in /usr/share/doc/osm2pgsql/examples/.
> 
> Thanks, I'll probably get a notification when this hits unstable and I
> can add this info to the wiki?

Yes.
 
> Btw, is debian's mapnik/osm2pgsql generally up-to-date enough to
> render openstreetmap tiles? I'm having hard time trying to judge this
> from the wiki since http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm2pgsql just
> has a vague warning
> 
>  "Be warned: the packages might be old. If you see rendering artifacts,
>   try compiling osm2pgsql from source. "
> 
> without telling which exact versions of mapnik and osm2pgsql work
> together.

The statement is a bit vague but generally not false.
Debian/stable is supposed to only receive security updates and important
bugfixes so that version might become outdated over time. 
I'm going to provide a backported packages for stable users on
backports.org, but this still needs to be done.

testing and unstable should contain a more or less up-to-date version
but this again depends on manpower to ensure a properly tested
package. Perhaps it's a good idea to link the package page so that
people can judge whether that version is sufficient? (And if not, bug
reports are of course welcome :)

http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/osm2pgsql.html

> My personal need to run mapnik currently only involves rendering a
> city with custom styles and updating it with hourly diffs from a
> cronjob. It would be terrific if the debian package came with a tested
> and known-to-work script to setup rendering of some test city
> automatically :-) (hint, hint) As a bonus, you could use this to test
> that the shipped versions of osm2pgsl and mapnik work together well.

This might become difficult since everybody uses a different setup, but
something like a an example script that can easily be adjusted sounds
like a good idea.


Regards,
Andreas