Dear Geowankers!
I'm pleased to announce a new release of Mapnik - 0.3.0. It's been a
long time but we have lots of new features, bug fixes, improvements.
Here are the major features:
1. License changed from GPL to LGPL
2. Python-based WMS server (WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0)
3. New Renderer interface
4. New Feature model
5. Font engine and text symbolization
6. Python and C++ demos
7. win32 support - yes, mapnik can be compiled (tested with vc-8_0) and
happily runs
on windows now. (In the future win32 binaries and/or build instructions
will be provided)
8. x86_64 support
About:
Mapnik is a Free <http://mapnik.org/licence/> Toolkit for developing
mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps.
It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.
It uses the AGG <http://www.antigrain.com> library and offers world
class anti-aliasing rendering with subpixel accuracy for geographic
data. It is written from scratch in modern C++ and doesn't suffer from
design decisions made a decade ago. When it comes to handling common
software tasks such as memory management, filesystem access, regular
expressions, parsing and so on, Mapnik doesn't re-invent the wheel, but
utilises best of breed industry standard libraries from boost.org
<http://boost.org>
Cheers
Artem
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