Hi Frans,<br>
<br>
Yes, Mapnik is yet another WMS/WMTS server which specializes in rendering OSM or GDAL/OGR data as fast and beautiful tiles.<br>
<br>
Mapserver and Geoserver also have their own renderers, and their own
cache tile systems (Mapcache, GeoWebCache). They are also implementing
other OGC standards like WFS. As far as i know Mapnik does not support
such a standard and is not planning to. Of course, the Mapnik folks can
probably explain main features and differences much better than me.<br>
<br>
Another minor difference is that Mapnik isn't an OSGeo project, compared to the two other servers you mentionned.<br>
<br>
Hope it helps<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Nick<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/10 Frans Thamura <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frans@meruvian.org" target="_blank">frans@meruvian.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
hi all<br>
<br>
anyone can help me, why Mapnik is not map server if we campare with<br>
GeoSErver and MapSErver<br>
<br>
it is rendering, but if it is rendering server, why we cannot put<br>
mapnik in Geoserver/Mapserver environment<br>
anyone can help?<br>
<br>
<br>
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