[Freegis-list] Mapnik progress

[Artem Pavlenko]

Dear list!

About:

Mapnik is a Free <http://mapnik.org/licence/> Toolkit for developing
mapping applications. Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps.
It is easily extensible and suitable for both desktop and web development.

It uses the AGG <http://www.antigrain.com> library and offers world
class anti-aliasing rendering with subpixel accuracy for geographic
data. It is written from scratch in modern C++ and doesn't suffer from
design decisions made a decade ago. When it comes to handling common
software tasks such as memory management, filesystem access, regular
expressions, parsing and so on, Mapnik doesn't re-invent the wheel, but
utilises best of breed industry standard libraries from boost.org
<http://boost.org>

New Features:

Font engine, text symbolizer, label collision detector
Work in progress on XML based map definitions and more.

Here are some results so far:

http://static.flickr.com/35/106561736_afcdc30ddb_o.png


Cheers
Artem Pavlenko