Hello Ulf, No. The desire for map elements has been expressed and their has been some interesting work in the experimental PDF branch, but there is no timeline or distinct plan at this point.
I should probably move those items to the 1.0 milestone to avoid confusion (done). The easiest way to get grids on a Mapnik map would be to generate a shapefile or graticules and render it as a layer. I've stashed a graticule generator here if you are interested: http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/example_code/bonne_projection/generate_graticules.py For a map border you could consider rendering a Mapnik map to the Cairo Context (requires building Mapnik with Cairo), and then using the Cairo C++ or Python bindings to draw borders. Ulf, GMT tools have quite advanced features and I agree that it would be excellent to think through similar features in Mapnik. Ulf, could you create a trac ticket describing some of the GMT stuff you would like to see? Dane On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:40 AM, Ulf Mehlig wrote: > I just saw that http://trac.mapnik.org/milestone/0.7.0 lists "map > canvas > features (surround,legend,scalebar,etc)". Does this imply that one may > expect that future Mapnik versions provide different types of map > borders with coordinate divisions, scalebars etc., like in the Generic > Mapping Tools (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu), for example? That would > be > great ... > > However, is there any moderately simple way to get coordinate grids > and > map borders with coordinate division with today's Mapnik? > > Many thanks! Ulf > > -- > Ulf Mehlig <[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
