[Carto] Building on Mapnik

[Dane Springmeyer]

Hey all,

The bitbucket.org site is now back up just in case you were previously  
blocked...

Thanks Tyler for kicking off this idea.

Dane


On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/ (bitbucket.org seems down at  
> the moment)
>
> Tyler
>
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