El día Monday 23 May 2011 16:26:00, Lukas Bischof dijo: > Can i use Mapnik as a real time map renderer or is mapnik just intended > to be a pre-renderer for building tiles like in openstreetmap?
Yeah, it can be used as such. Check out mod_tile, tirex, paleoserver (WMS), and friends. > Where are the limitations of mapnik? I assume that i have to split large > orthophoto into several pieces, Not really. I've used huge DEMs with no problem at all. Just store all your imagery correctly and you'll be fine. Having imagery as PostGIS raster can prove useful. I wouldn't worry about map size limitations - 2000x2000 maps render fine. If you need to do heavier raster processing with Mapnik, then you're using the wrong tool. Resort to GRASS or something raster-specific. > I want to build a city visualisation tool which can visualize > statistical data of the city directly on the map. So the map data itself > should be stay quite static, sometimes i want to show/hide map data, > like streets. Currently we are using a commercial product, but we really > want to use mapnik because of the beautiful rendering. Use overlays! Don't render a new image with new layers off/on. Render the layers as separate overlays, make client-side software put them on top of each other, and switch them on and off. > And another thing is... are there any projects out there which are using > mapnik in a desktop application? Check out QGis and its Quantumnik plugin. Best, -- Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> Un ordenador no es una televisión ni un microondas: es una herramienta compleja. _______________________________________________ Mapnik-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-users
