Hi Viktor, good question, and thanks for pointing out the inconsistencies in the documentation. I will fix those sections up to be more clear.
The full answer about Mapnik is that it if you have 64-bit windows, you will need to use a 64-bit Python installation (in order for other dependencies to work), and Mapnik's Python bindings are currently only supported for 32-bit. So, specifically, *on 64-bit Windows Mapnik can't be installed because its Python bindings won't work.* The consequences of this are actually pretty small: the Tilestache installation inside of Arches will not be able to render its full complement of "Providers", i.e. data sources that can be fed into Arches to create map overlays. Here is the Tilestache documentation about providers, http://tilestache.org/doc/#providers, and note that there are many alternatives to Mapnik providers. Hope that clears it up. It's a caveat, but a small one. You can see more discussion about the issue here: https://github.com/archesproject/arches/issues/1865. Adam On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Viktor_Getty <vik...@getty.edu> wrote: > I am trying to install Arches 4.0 on Windows and ran into some errors. But > before posting them I have a question about 'mapnik'. The instruction on > https://arches4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/ says: > > > - *Mapnik Installation instructions: * > *http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.html* > <http://mapnik.org/pages/downloads.html>*. Mapnik is not fully > supported on Windows, a few tileserver operations will not be available.* > > But then if I click > > > - Installing Dependencies Windows > > <https://github.com/archesproject/arches/wiki/Installing-Dependencies-on-Windows> > > the message is a little different: > *Mapnik* > > *Mapnik is not fully supported on Windows, a few tileserver operations > will not be available.* > > There is no link to mapnik.org any more. So my question is: in order to > install Arches 4.0 on Windows, do I need to have Mapnik installed? I > understood there will be some functionality missing on Windows, but do I > still need to install it to proceed with Arches installation? Or should/can > I omit it altogether? > > > Thank you in advance for any info. > > Viktor > > > -- > -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, > send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more > information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Arches Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
