Gilles Bassière-3 wrote: > > Hello, > > Moataz Elmasry wrote: >> Hi Habib >> >> Habib Ahmed wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I am newbie and looking to develop an offline navigator based on the >>> shapefiles. So far I have been able to render shapefiles in WPF (.Net >>> framework 4.0), but now I am trying to use Mapnik for map rendering >>> (for better performance), I was able to install it and run the demo >>> application based on python. My problem is that I am a C# .Net >>> framework developer and doesn't have much experience with either C or >>> Python. Could you guys direct me to some starting point. I was able to >>> download the example code in C++ from the following source >>> _http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/ExampleCode#CCode_ >> If you are just trying to display a map, I don't think you need to look >> at the c++ examples at all. >> You just need to know how to install a WMS OSM server for example >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS > > Habib is developping an *offline* navigator. A local WMS server may work > in some cases but it looks like an overkill to me. > >>> >>> now I am not sure what IDE to use on Windows, can I use Visual Studio >>> 2010 or is there any specific IDE you could suggest. >> Speaking of myself I use mainly eclipse, where you can also install >> python and c++ editor plugins to it. Net Beans is very famous too, there >> are also other less famous IDE's but I don't know alot about them >> >>> Also why do we need Python (is it just for Front End ?). >> No also at the backend, either c++/python are used as the backend >> server, for tile server for example or to render images > >>>>Mapnik is basically a C++ library for map drawing. The functionnalities >>>>it provides are implemented in C++ and you can of course use it in C++. > > >>But Mapnik also offers Python bindings. It means that the >>functionnalities *coded in C++* are made available in Python as regular >>Python functions and methods. So you can use this C++ library in Python >>as well. > >>Depending on the choices you've made for your project, you may use >>either Python or C++, up to you ;) > >>Regards >>Gilles > > -- >>Gilles Bassière - Web/GIS software engineer >>http://gbassiere.free.fr/ >>_______________________________________________ >>Mapnik-users mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users > >
I am looking to implement a solution using Either Visual C++ 6.0 or VC in Visual Studio 2010, could you suggest me any starting point or tutorial for that. My target application is a Navigator using Shapefiles. and for or my navigation application I would like to have a 2.5D view (something similar to http://www.cartotype.com/assets/images/promopanels/citymap.png http://www.cartotype.com/assets/images/promopanels/citymap.png ) of the map (specifically roads), can I achieve this in mapnik. Thanks Habib -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Questions-about-MapNik-tp30045557p30064118.html Sent from the Mapnik - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
