Good afternoon and thanks to everyone for your replies. Your ideas are all interesting. I've been doing some research on some of them, but what I'm primarily doing is trying to compile the source code of mapnik2 in linux. Waldemar has done much progress on this, so I'm following some of his suggestions. He has managed to run the python scripts of the 'getting started' guide, and he is currently adaping the code in http://gist.github.com/5009/ to mapnik2.
As soon as we get this running, we'll continue with the tickets related to this project. Thanks again. - Carlos López 2010/3/24 Artem Pavlenko <[email protected]> > Hi Carlos, > > Welcome to Mapnik! Great thread. > > 'Better Print Support' would be a great project. One approach would be > to implement svg_renderer (using existing agg/cairo as a basis) . This > way it'll be possible to have full control how features are > rendered/layered. Performance is another area, where we can improve > (cairo is slow). How about fast boost:karma [1] based SVG renderer ? > > [1] > http://boost-spirit.com/home/2010/03/09/integer-to-string-conversion-karma-fastest-again/ > > Regards, > Artem > > > 2010/3/22 Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]>: > > Hi, > > > > There is an open Geoserver ticket about the same thing. Sample image and > comments may be useful. > > > > > http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-3640?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=213866#action_213866 > > > > -Jukka Rahkonen- > > > > > > > > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > > Lähettäjä: [email protected] puolesta: Dane > Springmeyer > > Lähetetty: ma 22.3.2010 4:45 > > Vastaanottaja: Carlos Enrique López Garcés > > Kopio: Mapnik users mailing-list; mapnik-devel > > Aihe: Re: [Mapnik-users] [Mapnik-devel] Better Print Support > GSoC'sproject > > > > Carlos, > > > > Welcome! We've already chatted on IRC, but its great to see you > > posting to the list already. > > > > Robert, > > > > Great ideas. I'd totally forgot about the amazing stuff started in > > that PDF branch. I think it came before my involvement with Mapnik. Do > > you have any cool sample output you could share? Maybe post to a new > > ticket that targets porting the featureset over to the Cairo backend? > > > > Colin, > > > > Likewise, I forgot how cool Holger's rotated maps were! Wow! > http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html > > > > I've updated the GSOC "better printed maps" entry to try to link to > > some existing tickets and if I've missed some of these ideas please > > create new tickets to capture them or otherwise edit the GSOC page. > > > > http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GSOC2010/Ideas#BetterPrintSupport > > > > Right now the more ideas the better, so we can flesh out related > > topics. The time will come for both students, mentors, and the Mapnik > > community to hone in on the right feasible/fun subtopics, but for > > right now let's keep collecting the material. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Dane > > > > > > > > On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Colin Marquardt wrote: > > > >> 2010/3/21 Robert Coup <[email protected]>: > >>> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00140.html > >>> > >>> it has/had some cool features which could be worth porting to a > >>> Cairo-based PDF renderer. > >>> * paper sizes/scale calculations > >>> * grids/graticules > >>> * overlay images, including other PDFs > >>> * scale bars > >>> * borders around the map, with coordinates > >>> * outputting map layers as true PDF layers. This allows turning on & > >>> off individual layers in a PDF viewer. > >> > >> Good suggestions. I'm adding some more, even if these go way beyond > >> what could be expected of a single GSoC project - but it would be cool > >> to have them all :) > >> > >> * ability to merge multiple layers (hillshading, contour lines, > >> highlighting of routes or POIs, ...) > >> * Copyright/Attribution line (e.g. CC requires the full URL to the > >> license on printed maps) > >> * "North" arrow (important with a rotated map, see > >> http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html) > >> * Legend tailored to what is actually seen on the printed map (vs. > >> what is in the style file for this zoomlevel) > >> * Gazetteer (take a look at http://maposmatic.org), maybe including a > >> list of interesting features (hotels, public transport stations, ...) > >> > >> Cheers > >> Colin > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mapnik-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > >
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