[Pkg-osm-maint] Bug#705324: ITP: alacarte -- tile renderer for OpenStreetMap using Cairo and MapCSS

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Andrew,

you might like to maintain this package inside the Debian GIS team where
other OSM related packages are maintained as well.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 07:56:54AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andrew Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : alacarte
>   Version         : 0.2.1
>   Upstream Author : Institut für Theoretische Informatik et al.
> * URL             : http://github.com/alacarte-maps/alacarte/
> * License         : AGPL-3+
>   Programming Lang: C++11
>   Description     : tile renderer for OpenStreetMap using Cairo and MapCSS
> 
>  alaCarte is a tile renderer for OpenStreetMap data written in C++11,
>  using Cairo for rendering and Boost-Spirit for MapCSS parsing.
>  .
>  The rendered tiles are served over HTTP using the Slippy map tilenames
>  convention. To compute which data is needed for rendering a tile,
>  alaCarte uses a variant of a kd-Tree.
>  .
>  alaCarte was designed with medium dataset size in mind. On a typical
>  machine with at leat 8GB RAM, alaCarte can handle a unfiltered export
>  from the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (Germany).
>  .
>  Features:
>   * easy to use
>   * most MapCSS attributes are implemented
>   * no need to filter OSM exports, you have full access to all attributes at runtime
>   * stylesheets are updated at runtime (changes are detected automatically)
>   * tiles can be rendered in groups ("meta tile") to speed up rendering
> 
> P.S. The package is ready and working, but I think to wait a little bit until the
> upstream does the next release — I'm packaging from Git currently.
> 
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