Thanks for the suggestions On Wed, December 2, 2009 5:38 am, Dane Springmeyer wrote: >> <Parameter name="host">localhost</Parameter> >> <Parameter name="port">5432</Parameter> > Maybe try leaving "host" blank or both "host" and "port" blank (or > removing those lines altogether)?
I removed all the host and port parameters, but still get the same failure to connect. > Another way to play around with connecting via mapnik is to try a > python interpreter: > > $ python > >>> from mapnik import PostGIS > >>> PostGIS(dbname='gis',table='planet_osm_line') Tried this - got the following output. >>> from mapnik import PostGIS >>> PostGIS(dbname='gis',table='planet_osm_line') <mapnik.Datasource object at 0x0057F230> Does this indicate a connection, an error, or something else? > If that does not work after a few tries, maybe you've got a firewall > blocking things from connecting on localhost? Yeah, the firewall got disabled fairly early on in the whole process just to make sure of things! On Wed, December 2, 2009 12:21 am, Rahkonen Jukka wrote: > When it comes to the sea, coastline dataset is land polygons. The sea is > all blue on the bottom, over that comes these land polygons and next all > the other data. Thus you are now rendering only an empty canvas. This one turned out to be user error (me). It would have helped to have set my bounding box in the correct hemisphere... cheers ---- Tom Brennan [email protected] Bushwalking? http://ozultimate.com/bushwalking Canyoning? http://ozultimate.com/canyoning _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
