Hi Dane, On 11-06-15 10:40 AM, Dane Springmeyer wrote:
Is it feasible for your app just to use a static cache of local map tiles (for the base map), and then draw pins/markers on top of them?
If so, Mapnik could be useful for generating that set of tiles. But for dynamically drawing a few pins (and clustering) it might be easier just use the OSX native Cocoa drawing apis. So you might not even need to include Mapnik in your application.
Yes, a static cache is certainly possible. Our basemaps are not overlay detailed (no roads, for example), and we only need to let the visitor zoom in to about 20km across the viewing window. We might start though by generating the maps dynamically. Re the pins, yes, we've done a technical spike where these are drawn using native Cocoa.
But, if you do, and you find someone to help out, feel free to shoot more emails to this list with any questions. For example, I provide OSX installers for Mapnik but currently they require installation in /Library/Frameworks/Mapnik.Framework for things to work properly. It would not be terribly hard, however, to provide a Mapnik package that could be used in an app bundle.
Thanks to this list, we've got a very good Mapnik guy working with us. He would be well known to you all - but I'll leave it to him to reveal himself if he so desires.
Cheers, Darran _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
