Hi Chris, I doubt you are confused - It is me that's confused! Not being a C++ programmer it tricky for me to follow the mapnik core approach.
Exposing the api further for the core agg renderer is probably much more in line with the way mapnik is set up, and sounds interesting. But, having rebuilt mapnik with cairo support I do wonder about possibilities for rendering additional shapes on cairo surfaces before rendering with mapnik. Tom, based on the current integration with cairo can you see any possibilities for drawing arbitrary shapes using pycairo? Cheers, Dane On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > > > > Dane Springmeyer wrote: >> My use case is similar in the sense that I'd like to dynamically >> create and overlay shapes. I would be defining them in projected >> coordinates rather than screen coordinates, > >> I've yet to rebuild mapnik with the pycairo support, > > I'm a bit confused. It's my understanding that mapnik is drawing with > Agg. In that case, particularly if you want to define your stuff in > projected coordinates (or maybe lat-long), would you want an API > exposed > that would let you draw arbitrary stuff -- lines, circles, text, > paths, > etc, with Agg? most the code must be in there already, it should > just be > a matter of exposing it with a nice API. > > So where does pyCairo fit in? > > -Chris > > > -- > Christopher Barker, Ph.D. > Oceanographer > > Emergency Response Division > NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice > 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax > Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Mapnik-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
