I was thinking about this a little bit and I still don't see what would be the advantages of Mapnik over other solutions and how used would be the result considering that the GUI would be still quite limited. For me it seems that if I need some basic outputs, map display with cairo is fine especially if we would have some more improvements [1]. If I need advanced cartography I have to go to QGIS or something like Mapnik or GMT.
The idea of using Mapnik as common OSGeo cartographic backend seems dead [2] but perhaps QGIS is here to take this place. Or do you see this also a something like a missing GUI for Mapnik where one could generate just some configuration file which could be later used somewhere else with Mapnik? Yet another direction is Matplotlib [4] which is anyway a dependency. But perhaps this would be just another simple backend which is more advantageous when used as part of API. There was actually an attempt co couple GRASS GIS with Matplotlib map rendering [5]. Just my thoughts, Vaclav [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/GSoC/2015#CompletebasiccartographysuiteinGRASSGISwxGUIMapDisplay [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Cartographic_Library [3] http://docs.qgis.org/2.6/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/composer.html#output-using-map-composer [4] http://matplotlib.org/basemap/users/examples.html [5] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2013-October/066017.html On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Martin Landa <landa.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-03-10 9:47 GMT+01:00 Martin Landa <landa.mar...@gmail.com>: > > driver [4] based on Mapnik libraries. In other words replacement for > > Cairo [5] driver focused on cartographic outputs. Such driver would be > > btw, Mapnik is using Cairo as one of renderers [1]. Martin > > [1] https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/MapnikRenderers > > -- > Martin Landa > http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa > http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >
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