Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-12 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Luca Delucchi wrote: > > > 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 Mapn

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-12 Thread Luca Delucchi
On 12 March 2015 at 05:38, Vaclav Petras 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 so

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-12 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2015-03-10 9:47 GMT+01:00 Martin Landa : > driver [4] based on Mapnik libraries. In other words replacement for > Cairo [5] driver focused on cartographic outputs. Such driver would be btw, Mapnik is using Cairo as one of renderers [1]. Martin [1] https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Mapnik

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-11 Thread Vaclav Petras
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 especial

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Luca Delucchi wrote: > On 10 March 2015 at 09:47, Martin Landa wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > Hi Martin, > > > 2015-03-09 15:37 GMT+01:00 Adam Laža : > >> I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of > your > >> topics for GSoC. I have bas

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Luca Delucchi
On 10 March 2015 at 09:47, Martin Landa wrote: > Hi Adam, > Hi Martin, > 2015-03-09 15:37 GMT+01:00 Adam Laža : >> I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of your >> topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already written >> some code in Python for

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Luca Delucchi
On 9 March 2015 at 15:37, Adam Laža wrote: > Hi devs, > Hi Adam, > I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of your > topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already written > some code in Python for GRASS Add-Ons. > I'd like to focus on Mapnik engin

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Martin Landa
Hi Adam, 2015-03-09 15:37 GMT+01:00 Adam Laža : > I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of your > topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already written > some code in Python for GRASS Add-Ons. > I'd like to focus on Mapnik engine, actual display d

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2015-03-10 8:09 GMT+01:00 Adam Laža : > I worked on natural neigbour interpolation and I wrote v.surf.nnbathy and > r.surf.nnbathy modules in Python [1]. These modules are dependent on btw, it's old link, the modules have been moved to [1,2]. Martin [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/g

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-10 Thread Adam Laža
Hi, I worked on natural neigbour interpolation and I wrote v.surf.nnbathy and r.surf.nnbathy modules in Python [1]. These modules are dependent on external libraries nn-c and Triangle. For my bachelor thesis I try to get rid of the dependencies and use existing modules v.delaunay and v.voronoi ins

Re: [GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-09 Thread Anna Petrášová
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Adam Laža wrote: > Hi devs, > > I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of > your topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already > written some code in Python for GRASS Add-Ons. > I'd like to focus on Mapnik engine,

[GRASS-dev] GSoC 2015: Mapnik rendering engine for GRASS GIS

2015-03-09 Thread Adam Laža
Hi devs, I study geoinformatics at CTU in Prague and I get interested in some of your topics for GSoC. I have basic knowledge in C/C++ and I've already written some code in Python for GRASS Add-Ons. I'd like to focus on Mapnik engine, actual display drivers and graphic outputs. Let me know if thi