On 30 Jan 2008, at 12:11, bvh wrote: > 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? >
This is why I started: http://trac.mapnik.org/browser/trunk/demo/viewer > 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... You should have no problems at all. > > I'll investigate some more this weekend. > > cu bart Artem > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
