On 12 March 2015 at 05:38, Vaclav Petras <wenzesl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
But we could integrate Mapnik inside GRASS, it has a lot of feature for printing beautiful maps > The idea of using Mapnik as common OSGeo cartographic backend seems dead [2] > but perhaps QGIS is here to take this place. > I'm sorry about that, I like this idea, never heard about that. > 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? > No, my idea was to use Python API to add Mapnik backend to the Cartographic Composer, Martin proposed to use the C-API to add another graphical driver. > 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]. > Yes this could be another direction, I proposed Mapnik because I use it and I like it. > Just my thoughts, > Vaclav > -- ciao Luca http://gis.cri.fmach.it/delucchi/ www.lucadelu.org _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
