taking this to dev On 30 Jan 2008, at 11:57, bvh wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:47:15AM +0000, Artem Pavlenko wrote: >>> No, we should provide tools that make it very easy to create a >>> custom >>> map. Mapnik is not (yet?) that tool. >> Mapnik is that tool and it's also free and easy to use ;) . It is >> used in many exciting projects to generate custom maps e.g > > Granted, I don't know a lot about mapnik, but I was under the > impression > that to edit your styles you need to either author an XML file > (which incidently I want to be able to read in merkaartor and > I wanted to send you an email regarding more detailed documentation > on that) or do Python programming. That is not 'easy to use' > for the use case that this thread started : a one off quick > screengrab for a simple website.
Yes, Mapnik is a library and it consumes styles/rules/datasources in XML format. To make it easy to use there is a need for GUI. > >>> Merkaartor is also >>> getting some of it : I just added an integrated gui to edit the map >>> style >>> to subversion, effectively with the aim to make merkaartor a full >>> wysiwyg map editor/renderer combination. >> If you're serious about rendering high-quality maps and I believe >> you're using qt4 in your project, why don't you join forces and work >> on Mapnik GUI ? > > Well, I am certainly very interested in being able to read/write > mapnik rendering style files. Consider this a request for > documentation on that. > > I am not sure if I am ready to use mapnik as the render engine for > the editor part though. Editings put some special constraints on the > renderer and on the structure of the data. Unfortunatly I don't > know enough > about mapnik if it flexible enough to adapt. But I am certainly open > to the possibility. I don't suggest you use mapnik for rendering while editing, but you can. But viewing what you have just edited as a final map in real- time would be very smart, imo. And it is already implemented, you just render into QImage and draw the map . Or even develop further to able to edit styles and data sources.. Artem _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
