New release cartographic design studio TileMill

Hello. Less than half a year since the release of the previous version of the cartographic design studio TileMill (see review ), a new release came out for version 0.4.

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The new version has greatly simplified the installation process. There is no need to build a studio from source codes, binary packages for Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux are now available. Most of the studio code is rewritten using Node.js 0.4.9, starting from the installation process (now using npm 1.0.22) and ending with the rendering mechanism.

Installation

The process of installing TileMill on Mac OS X is much simpler. Now you just need to download one * .app file, move it to the Applications directory and start the application from the dock' .

Ubuntu Linux users can now access MapBox PPA , which allows you to install TileMill via apt-get or the Ubuntu Software Center.

If you have previously had problems installing TileMill, now everything should go smoothly.

Faster rendering

Thanks to the new meta-tiling mechanism in the node-mapnik , TileMill 0.4 renders maps 2.5 times faster than the previous release. A small set of improvements in the export mechanism increases the speed of transferring the card to the MBTiles format.

All the rest

In addition to all this, in the new release there are still many different improvements, such as:

Updated user interface (the map viewport has become larger, the design has become more “clean”)
Improved font and color selection dialogs
Calculate the time until the end of the export
Built-in view of maps exported to MBTiles
Simplified dialog for working with data sources (browser added for local file system)