On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, Mapnik looks to be a great resource and exactly what I'm looking for > although the lack of documentation makes it use rather daunting. Even some > basic intro info explaining the data model would be of great use. An > explanation of the general flow of how data is added and finally rendered > along with descriptions of the function parameters for the most common > functions would be great. Other then the demo program there's nothing > explaining how anything works. It looks like doxygen comments were started > in map.hpp but even those are lacking. For instance the zoom functions > mention a bounding box but there's no explanation of what units the > parameters should be in. Are they in data coordinates, pixels, etc? One > needs to look at the demo program in order to guess at that.
If you want to see a demo, check out the openstreetmap project. Mapnik is used extensively and it provides a example of how it all works. For example, here are complete instruction for getting mapnik to render maps out of a postgis database: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
