Mapnik is a toolkit for developing GISapplications. At the core is a C++ shared libraryproviding algorithms/patterns for spatial dataaccess and visualization. Essentially a collectionof geographic objects (map, layer, datasource,feature, and geometry), the library doesn't relyon "windowing systems" and can be deployed in anyserver environment. It is intended to play fair ina multi-threaded environment and is aimedprimarily, but not exclusively, at Web-baseddevelopment. High-level Python bindings(boost.python) facilitate rapid applicationdevelopment, targeting zope3, django, etc.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release builds with GCC 4.3. It re-enables regex support, which was inadvertently disabled in 0.5.0. Better error handling has been added to shapeindex. Support has been added for PPC-64 builds. A division by zero error in placement_finder.cpp with multiple loops has been fixed.
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