Carlos,
Welcome! We've already chatted on IRC, but its great to see you
posting to the list already.
Robert,
Great ideas. I'd totally forgot about the amazing stuff started in
that PDF branch. I think it came before my involvement with Mapnik. Do
you have any cool sample output you could share? Maybe post to a new
ticket that targets porting the featureset over to the Cairo backend?
Colin,
Likewise, I forgot how cool Holger's rotated maps were! Wow!
http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html
I've updated the GSOC "better printed maps" entry to try to link to
some existing tickets and if I've missed some of these ideas please
create new tickets to capture them or otherwise edit the GSOC page.
http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/GSOC2010/Ideas#BetterPrintSupport
Right now the more ideas the better, so we can flesh out related
topics. The time will come for both students, mentors, and the Mapnik
community to hone in on the right feasible/fun subtopics, but for
right now let's keep collecting the material.
Thanks!
Dane
On Mar 21, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Colin Marquardt wrote:
2010/3/21 Robert Coup <[email protected]>:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00140.html
it has/had some cool features which could be worth porting to a
Cairo-based PDF renderer.
* paper sizes/scale calculations
* grids/graticules
* overlay images, including other PDFs
* scale bars
* borders around the map, with coordinates
* outputting map layers as true PDF layers. This allows turning on &
off individual layers in a PDF viewer.
Good suggestions. I'm adding some more, even if these go way beyond
what could be expected of a single GSoC project - but it would be cool
to have them all :)
* ability to merge multiple layers (hillshading, contour lines,
highlighting of routes or POIs, ...)
* Copyright/Attribution line (e.g. CC requires the full URL to the
license on printed maps)
* "North" arrow (important with a rotated map, see
http://www.ancalime.de/rotated.html)
* Legend tailored to what is actually seen on the printed map (vs.
what is in the style file for this zoomlevel)
* Gazetteer (take a look at http://maposmatic.org), maybe including a
list of interesting features (hotels, public transport stations, ...)
Cheers
Colin
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