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Always reassuring to grab something you need off GitHub and find, on first using it, that it contains a syntax error which prevents it running at all. I mean, you don't have to go full TDD, but this thing couldn't even have worked on his machine
Tea towels done. And I remembered that I wanted chips for tonight's tea, so a large batch of them has just been brought to Phase I, and is now drying off.
I may not have time to freeze the ones for tonight, but never mind
Got 30 mins in & decided I'd had enough for tonight.
Only another 2 hrs 50 mins to go.
The aspect ration looked a bit odd at the start, as if it was 16:9 squashed to 4:3, but later on it looks ok at 4:3.
3 hours of very tall people might get a bit wearing and neither the tv nor the bluray player seems to be able to correct it, despite much pressing of buttons.
The Brian Brown takes the Fred Astaire part, with someone I've never heard of doing the Gregory Peck thing.
Apparently the 1959 version upset Neville Shute so much it killed him.
After much thrashing about, I finally got the basic version of the thing working
It didn't help that for most of the day, I've had it pointing at the wrong database server
But now I'm pointing at the right one: behold!
That map was rendered in response to an HTTP request, with the bounding box specified in the URL. Running in a Vagrant VM on my MBA, and using geographic data from a Postgres database server running on my iMac across the room, it rendered in 6 seconds, which isn't too bad.
FWIW, it shows the area in which Arthur Ransome's novel Secret Water is set
Couldn't work out why Mapnik was failing to render land polygons, leading to bits of dry land not appearing. After mucking about for ages making sure it was building OK, the server was configured OK, the Mapnik mapfile was correct, and so on, it turned out the polygon shapefiles were somehow corrupted.
Fixed now
Oh, and adding database GIN indexes has shaved a few seconds off the rendering time
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