Provide a verified, functioning install

[Aerilius]

Thank you for this great software! Seeing how not only me, but many others struggle installing the software correctly (and when it works for Malta, it may still crash after hours at the last step for a bigger country), and seeing that many issue reports are not bugs in wahooMapsCreator, but version issues with the underlying tools, I think users would benefit a lot from making this more robust:

The requirements contain many different components with loosely or unspecified versions. For example, the conda command covers only Python packages, and some have version constraints. In contrast, users have to collect Java, osmium-tool, osmosis from somewhere, and hope that wahoomc is happy with it. This can be the Oracle website, homebrew, various repositories of different Linux distributions (no, they are not homebrew). The user is also limited to the last version published in the repository.

• It would be nice to have pre-compiled maps as download that could be shared. There may be good reasons why this is not the case (effort, licensing, hosting), but it is important to keep in mind that users may just want to get: a map. (After all, it wouldn't be scalable if 8 billion people had to build each their own OpenStreetMap/Wahoo maps.)

• It would be nice to have a frozen and tested compilation of the required software components that are proven to have worked for some people. I think the best way to achieve this is a Docker image (or a reproducible Dockerfile with pinned versions).

[tarmacalastair]

Love the idea as I just can't get this to work. Works on Malta as you say but then errors out after 10 hours or more of processing.
I have tried using this github and 4 (I think) docker versions and still can't get anything to work successfully.
All my tests have been on either Ubuntu Linux (24.04) or Debian and I have tried on X86 PC, Raspberry Pi, virtualbox.

The main problem I have had is with generating contours (-con flag).

In the FAQ there is a link to pre-compiled maps but unfortunately the link no longer works.

[treee111]

Hi @tarmacalastair, thanks for your issue and sorry for the late reply!
The setup I have done with this repo is ways easier as it was the time before.
There you really had to install tons more manually, take care of certain versions of tools to be OK with each other and configs around the OS.
So this tool is really a game-changer by coming down from 7/8 hours to 1/2 for the initial setup.

I updated the link to the pre-compiled maps with 8d98ab1 and also that the docker version where contour lines has been added some months ago (I didn't tested it).

I you like to build a standalone package or improve the docker version feel free to do so and submit your enhancements!

Other than that we can did into what is not working on your computer with concrete examples / error logs. Setting up the contour lines setup made me also some trouble some time ago...

[tarmacalastair]

Thanks