Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-24 Thread John Poole
Yup... I've just installed Mapnik about two hours ago on my Gentoo AMD Phenom box after grappling with a lot of dependencies (which regrettably Gentoo's emerge system did not automatically set up for me) and found the Google code project for nik2img. Now reading up on Mapnik trying to get to the e

Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-24 Thread pcreso
wrote: From: Robert Coup Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes? To: "PostGIS Users Discussion" Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 9:18 AM On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Martin Davis wrote:  Try looking at Mapnik.  This is wha

Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-24 Thread Robert Coup
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:50 AM, Martin Davis wrote: > Try looking at Mapnik. This is what OpenStreetMap uses to generate its > tiles. I believe it exposes an API (or at least a cmd-line interface) Yep, it certainly does. There's a command line tool that renders an XML map declaration to a ma

Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-24 Thread Martin Davis
Try looking at Mapnik. This is what OpenStreetMap uses to generate its tiles. I believe it exposes an API (or at least a cmd-line interface) On 9/22/2010 8:35 PM, John Poole wrote: I'm preparing walk lists for a campaign which contains a table of addresses, about 35 to a page on 8.5" x 11" p

Re: [postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-22 Thread Nicklas Avén
I think it looks like a job for mapserver to produce the images. then you can decide both output extent on the fly and decide the input extent by a query or a bounding box or whatever. but that will just give you images. How to make the layout I don't know. /Nicklas2010-09-23 John Poole wrot

[postgis-users] Programmatically generate maps zoomed to extent of shapes?

2010-09-22 Thread John Poole
I'm preparing walk lists for a campaign which contains a table of addresses, about 35 to a page on 8.5" x 11" paper. I have the addresses tied into a postgis database with roads and assessor's parcels, so for a given page, I can get a handle on the IDs of the associated shapes. What I'm wondering