On 10 March 2015 at 09:47, Martin Landa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, >
Hi Martin, > 2015-03-09 15:37 GMT+01:00 Adam Laža <[email protected]>: >> I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of your >> topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already written >> some code in Python for GRASS Add-Ons. >> I'd like to focus on Mapnik engine, actual display drivers and graphic >> outputs. > > great! The proposal on the wiki [1] is somehow focused on writing > alternative rendering engine for ps.map [2] which is currently used by > wxGUI Cartographic Composer [3]. It would be probably a good idea also > to investigate whether would be possible to write a new GRASS display > driver [4] based on Mapnik libraries. In other words replacement for > Cairo [5] driver focused on cartographic outputs. Such driver would be > written in C and would require C-API for Mapnik, I found something on > [6], but I am not sure if it would be possible to use. > Good Idea to create a new driver based on Mapnik ;-) I never heard about the C-API for Mapnik but they should be useful. I could ask to Dane what is the stability of the C-API. Is there any way to write the driver in Python (the Mapnik Python API are probably more stable, used and tested than the C-API) > Martin > -- ciao Luca http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/ www.lucadelu.org _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
