On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:20 PM, fiskz wrote: > > I'm new to mapnik and just found this forum. I tried searching on pagesize > and maplimits but no hits. I'm trying to define a map page, with the map > occupying just a portion of the total page.
Mapnik is designed for making the map, but to place that map within a larger canvas would require a bit of python scripting. If you are interested in that route then I can advise further about how to use pycairo (python bindings to cairo library) and then how to render a mapnik map to a cairo context/surface. If you are not looking for a programming solution, then I would recommend using QuantumGIS and its map layout features. You may notice that I've written a plugin to QGIS to enable mapnik rendered maps to be loaded as a QGIS layer (Quantumnik). But I've not yet added support for this mapnik layer to be used in the QGIS map layout tools (map composer), though this is in the long term plans. > Think of a traditional US TOPO > map, with the legend below, and other information in the margins. What > properties should I look into using? thanks you. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/pagesize-and-maplimits-tp30704464p30704464.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 _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
