On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:51:34PM +0000, Artem Pavlenko wrote: > This is why I'm making win32 binaries ( and planning os x pkg) - for > ordinary mortals. > For more advanced folk : sudo apt-get install mapnik or rpm -ivh etc. > All is needed is a bit of extra help (hint hint hint) , I'm > personally quite happy with building from source - worksforme :) ... > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by instance. Postgresql ? > Mapnik is c++ library that can be used with any modern GUI toolkit to > render maps. There are different ways to setup it up, of course and > web based service is one of them.
As you said : mapnik is c++ library hence useless for ordinary mortals. To unlock the power of mapnik they need a setup that feeds mapnik map data, a front to easily edit their mapstyle and a backend that let's them chop and save tiles/maps/jpegs whatever. And that is not (yet) within reach of ordinary mortals, is it? But the more I think of it, merkaartor has quite a bit of that already : it has the data and the tools to easily download them from OSM api. It recently acquired a mapstyle editor (albeit quite basic for now). It has a user interface for finding your area of interest. What we are missing is the interface towards mapnik but given both are c++ projects I don't see huge problems... I'll investigate some more this weekend. cu bart _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
