Windows users, The Windows binaries for Mapnik 0.6.1 are starting to gain more functionality, and I've added a quick table to help users track additions as they are made:
http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/WindowsInstallation#SupportedFeatures Highlights of the 0.6.1 release include: * XML parsing is now down by libxml2, allowing for the use of External Entities (http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/ManagingLargeXmlFiles) - Note that the libxml2 parser requires proper escaping all illegal characters, ie changing all '>' and '<' to > and < * Memory mapped file loading is now disabled in the Shapefile plugin, as a workaround for file access problems specific to windows that could result in 'invalid file handle' errors when loading shapefiles (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/342) also opened by another process. - This fix specifically allows for the use of shapefiles with Quantumnik on Windows (bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik) * The OGR Plugin has been added which should allow for reading of all OGR 'Compiled by default' formats (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html ) Huge thanks go to Artem for all of his work on Mapnik and especially for building this awesome set of Windows binaries. Dane _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
