Welcome

Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. It's written in C++ and there are Python bindings to facilitate fast-paced agile development. It can comfortably be used for both desktop and web development.

Have fun!
The Mapnik Team

Mapnik Starting Points

• Installation
  • WindowsInstallation -- Installing Mapnik on Windows
  • MacInstallation -- Installing Mapnik and deps on Mac OS X
  • UbuntuInstallation -- Installing Mapnik on Ubuntu
• Tutorials
  • GettingStarted -- 'Hello,world!' using Python bindings.
  • XmlGettingStarted -- 'Hello, world' using Python and XML
• ManagingLargeXmlFiles -- Do things once and only once using XML entities.
• SymbologySupport -- Tips, tricks and recipes for feature symbolization.
• LabelingSupport? -- Discover the intricacies of label placement.
• MapnikViewer -- View tiles on-the-fly. Also great for debugging config files.
• OgcServer -- About the OGC Server and WMS support.
• DemoGallery -- See Mapnik in action!

Developers Corner

• XmlFormatDiscussion
• DebuggingMapnik
• ShieldSymbolizerTests
• StableMergeQueue

Trac Starting Points

• TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation
• The Trac project -- Trac Open Source Project
• Trac FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions
• TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.