I'd like to announce the release of version 0.01 of mapbook, a PDF map book creator for mapnik generated maps. This is very much a development release and is missing what I view to be important features.
mapbook can be found at https://github.com/pnorman/mapbook Features: It uses Mapnik's AGG-based renderer and should take any mapnik .xml file Adjustable resolution and paper size Uninteresting map pages may be skipped and omitted Has not exploded Dependencies Mapnik2 (may work with older versions with minor code tweaks) Python >= 2.6 Cairo, pycairo Pango Pangocairo Notes: The user is responsible for inserting an appropriate copyright page for the map they are using Printing high-DPI maps can be both time and toner intensive Upcoming features: An index page feature for an overview of the area Headings The ability to tweak a specific page to expose the map under the border Cleaner code? A license for the code? A scale bar Known issues: Adjusting --firstpage and --blankfirst is confusing Some stylesheets use images for icons which do not work well at different resolutions (e.g. osm.org mapnik). Using an alternate style which uses svg icons (e.g. mapquest open) is suggested. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
