Hello,
I am completely new to this stuff so please bear with me. I am just
teaching myself Python and Django and don't have a background in
programming really (I can find my way around in Javascript and spent a
lot of time doing Max/MSP stuff so i am not completely ignorant either).
It took me a week but I was able to get Mapnik installed properly on
OS X Leopard.
I have now gone through the two short tutorials on the Mapnik Wiki and
am able to generate a .png of the world and alter the colors, one
while setting those parameters in an XML file.
Now what? How does one generate tiles rather than one image? And for
that matter, is the idea to generate a set of tiles for each zoom
level you plan to support? Maybe I am missing some common knowledge
about this and if so I apologize, and ask if someone could please
point me to resources on this. Where does a beginner start?
Are there any books this list could recommend on web cartography? I
just ordered this one, which seemed pretty good:
http://tinyurl.com/6m5y3b
Thanks!
On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Dane for your link. The "docs" or "apydocs" were not included
in my download !
> You should look in the docs folder in the download. There is basic
api
> information there (https://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/docs/epydocs
)
But I was able to download trunk-r697.zip, including "epydocs". But
really, this is not worth the name "documentation", I think.
Some examples:
Why are functions like CreateLayer denominated as variables on \docs
\epydocs\private\mapnik._mapnik-module.html?
How can I find any information on what parameters these methods
expect?
How can I find out what the third parameter in m =
Map(600,600,"+proj=latlong +ellps=WGS84") should contain?
I cannot find any constructor on \docs\epydocs\private
\mapnik._mapnik.Map-class.html that seems to match this syntax.
How to create a PointSymbolizer? \docs\epydocs\private
\mapnik._mapnik.PointSymbolizer-class.html is not gonna help me with
this.
Nowhere I find anything in epydocs about the Shapefile function,
although it is used in the demo.
The same for the PostGIS method, that I am using now, just by
guessing there should be some functions like that.
And I just noticed that the last file content update, goes back to
Wed Mar 22 21:43:29 2006 !
This lack of documentation / references is really sad !
Kristof Vydt
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