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TileMill is a modern map design studio
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Remove sample projects #2098

Open springmeyer opened 11 years ago

springmeyer commented 11 years ago

I'd like to seriously entertain removing the default projects and instead making them portable and available a .zip files that can be downloaded and put in place. This will reduce the size of the app and make it easier to update them on their own release cycle.

ian29 commented 11 years ago

+1. makes sense to tie these to major cartocss OR tilemill releases, which we haven't done in the past?

incanus commented 11 years ago

+1, but on OS X I'd like to slickify the "put in place" step as much as possible.

ajashton commented 11 years ago

+1, and I think we can slickify on more than one OS :)

springmeyer commented 11 years ago

I don't see any bandwidth free for slickifying in the sense of a TileMill 1 UI - is that what you are thinking?

ajashton commented 11 years ago

I don't know what @incanus had in mind, but from a documentation/support/being-a-linux-user point of view I am highly in favour of keeping features cross-platform wherever possible.

I suppose for slickification for OS X distribution without UI work could be in the form of a DMG where you just drag and drop some folders onto a symlink to ~/Documents/MapBox/project.

incanus commented 11 years ago

Yeah, agree on cross-platform. I was thinking something like a custom file extension on the zip that TileMill.app knows how to open. One line in a property list to recognize it, one line of code to receive it, one to copy it, and one to pop an alert.

springmeyer commented 10 years ago

noting that it has come up that we prefer people do not base64 their images, so when this removal happens we should make a note that the geography-class template example is not best practice.