Hello, Moataz Elmasry wrote: > Hi Habib > > Habib Ahmed wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I am newbie and looking to develop an offline navigator based on the >> shapefiles. So far I have been able to render shapefiles in WPF (.Net >> framework 4.0), but now I am trying to use Mapnik for map rendering >> (for better performance), I was able to install it and run the demo >> application based on python. My problem is that I am a C# .Net >> framework developer and doesn't have much experience with either C or >> Python. Could you guys direct me to some starting point. I was able to >> download the example code in C++ from the following source >> _http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/ExampleCode#CCode_ > If you are just trying to display a map, I don't think you need to look > at the c++ examples at all. > You just need to know how to install a WMS OSM server for example > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS
Habib is developping an *offline* navigator. A local WMS server may work in some cases but it looks like an overkill to me. >> >> now I am not sure what IDE to use on Windows, can I use Visual Studio >> 2010 or is there any specific IDE you could suggest. > Speaking of myself I use mainly eclipse, where you can also install > python and c++ editor plugins to it. Net Beans is very famous too, there > are also other less famous IDE's but I don't know alot about them > >> Also why do we need Python (is it just for Front End ?). > No also at the backend, either c++/python are used as the backend > server, for tile server for example or to render images Mapnik is basically a C++ library for map drawing. The functionnalities it provides are implemented in C++ and you can of course use it in C++. But Mapnik also offers Python bindings. It means that the functionnalities *coded in C++* are made available in Python as regular Python functions and methods. So you can use this C++ library in Python as well. Depending on the choices you've made for your project, you may use either Python or C++, up to you ;) Regards Gilles -- Gilles Bassière - Web/GIS software engineer http://gbassiere.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
