<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">Dear Tyler<br><br>It is seems you have been involved in a very deep research. It's sounds fine because I started to feel no so comfortable with this project due to the lack of activity.<br><br>Now I haven't got enough time for review MapNik entirely but I will try to find space and give a more professional opinion.<br><br>The little I know about that initiative is it has a nice rendering system that it is consistent with this project.<br><br>My best regards<br><div> </div>Gabriel Asato<br>Unidad Sensores Remotos y SIG<br>Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino<br>(SEGEMAR)<br>Av. Julio A. Roca 651 p 8 of 1<br>Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires<br>ARGENTINA<br><br><div>tel 54-11-4349-3158/26<br>fax 54-11-4349-3287<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;
font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell@osgeo.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> carto@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviado:</span></b> vie, octubre 2, 2009 4:42:30 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asunto:</span></b> [Carto] Building on Mapnik<br></font><br><p>Hi all, I've been kicking around and further investigating ways of moving forward on this project/concept and have come to the personal conclusion that Mapnik provides a powerful base for building on. For me there are several advantages including its Python base and cairo output options (for supporting various formats, including vectors). </p>
<p>But also the XML based configuration files also seem relatively straightforward (easy for me to say ;-) ) and comprehensive enough for this project. Of course there will likely be more specs we need to define to wrap up all our needs, but I think much of what we need is there. I will do up a new/revised wiki page to show how I think we can build on this.</p>
<p>Any other pros/cons for using Mapnik as a base? I figure rather than debate it for another year, we can focus on something and get issues clearly defined in that context.</p>
<p>By the way, Dane Springmeyer has built several useful utilities and a cool plugin for QGIS that allows you to style your layers, etc. and then view the Mapnik XML definition. For those who want to check it out see Quantumnik:</p>
<p><span><a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/">http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/</a> (bitbucket.org seems down at the moment)</span></p>
<p>Tyler</p>
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