pre-seed DB credentials for tilemill postgis

[hamish]

Hi,

it would be nice if the disc's local PostGIS dbs were already in the favorites list for the tilemill add layer window. less stuff to typo.

thanks, Hamish

[springmeyer]

This can be hacked in by initializing the app.db which TileMill creates on first load and will re-use afterword. It is a json file of key/values. Something like this should work, if run during the install

<pre> mkdir -p ~/Documents/MapBox/ echo '{"key":"/api/Favorite/dbname=osm","val":{"id":"dbname=osm"}}' > ~/Documents/MapBox/app.db </pre>

If you create favorites then they will get serialized to this file so you could get the right params that way....

[hamish]

Hi,

by the way -- tons of dead symlinks on the disc in

/usr/share/tilemill/node_modules/.bin/

and similar in node_modules/. (cruft from a make clean?)

Hamish

[hamish]

attempt made in r9676.

Hamish

[springmeyer]

re: cruft, yeah there is some, known issue: ​https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill/issues/1471

[hamish]

tested with the latest nightly iso build, the attempt seems to have worked. I only tried the natural_earth2 DB, not the osm_local and osm_local spherical merc. ones, but the nat earth one seemed to work ok.

minor glitches of note: 1) the layer name box went all white as I was typing in the box so typing blind; it would be nice to have a drop down list of postgres layers containing geometry columns to avoid the typoing. 2) had to drag the window a bit bigger to get to the save button. not much of a problem but glad I wasn't trying it on a shallow-screened netbook.

closing wish

Hamish

[hamish]

ps- in gpsdrive's mapnik osm.xml I replaced the 380mb OSM world coastline shapefile with the much smaller natural earth one, and it seems to work ok, albeit without the detail, but it's better than nothing.

[springmeyer]

glad the presets are working.

re: the white disappearing ui bug, yes also seen this as well as others like ​https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill/issues/1769. My sense is this one is likely a webkit bug. To work around try loading up TileMill at ​http://localhost:20009 in firefox instead.

re: the save button problem, tracked at ​https://github.com/mapbox/tilemill/issues/1784