Great news.

On Apr 11, 2009, at 4:19 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>
> On Tue Mar 31 05:19:34 CEST 2009
> Dane Springmeyer wrote:
>> I'm hoping some mac users out there might be interested in testing  
>> and
>> improving this Portfile.
>> You can find a guide to getting started in the Mapnik-utils  
>> 'Sandbox':
>> http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/sandbox/ports/README.txt
>
> Thanks for making this available.

You are welcome.

> When I ran the portfile on my system, with
> all ports upgraded as of the start of the month,
> it failed while looking for a tar.gz archive of the
> source.

I assume you tried with this one?
http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/sandbox/ports/graphics/py25-mapnik/Portfile

I noticed the checksum problems too. Is it because it is looking by  
default for a .gz not .bz2?

> To make it work, I repackaged the bzip2 file
> and replaced the md5 checksum in the portfile with
> that generated by md5sum for the re-packaged source
> archive.
>

Ah, okay.

> The port then built.
>
> I tried to run the example at
> http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GettingStarted
>
> The script version posted there has an error.
> The last line should read :
>
> mapnik.render_to_file(m,'world.png', 'png')
> rather than:
>
> render_to_file(m,'world.png', 'png')
>

Fixed, nice catch.

> The script ran for some time and produced only
> a blank box of apparently correct dimensions.
>

Hmm, are you sure that the path to the shapefile is correct?

Dane


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