Welcome to the Mapnik Wiki

Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. It's written in C++, with 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

• What is Mapnik?
  • MapnikOverview | DemoGallery | mapnik.org
  • Commit Timeline at Ohloh:
    

• Installing Mapnik
  • MapnikInstallation - Guides and notes on installing Mapnik
  • MapnikDependencies - Notes on required dependencies

• Community
  • Mapnik Users: Post Questions | Archive | Nabble.
  • Join #mapnik on irc.freenode.net for Mapnik community conversation and help.
  • Contribute to the Mapnik Wiki

• Tutorials
  • GettingStarted -- 'Hello,world!' using pure Python bindings.
  • XmlGettingStarted -- 'Hello, world' using Python and XML styling
  • Nik2Img -- Read in XML mapfile and output maps graphics
  • ExampleCode -- Code snippets from Mapnik users
  • XML configuration reference -- Reference to what can be in the XML configuration file
• Core Utilities
  • OgcServer -- The python-based OGC Server with WMS 1.1 and 1.3 support.
  • MapnikViewer -- A QT Desktop App for interactively viewing XML mapfiles
  • Shapeindex - Quad-tree shapefile indexes for a serious speed boost

• External Utilities
  • OSM Slippy Map - Overview OSM rendering | Roll your own
  • Mod Tile - The tool OSM uses to render mapnik tiles for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/
  • TileCache - Use WMS-C to render tiles dynamically, or cached | Example in OL
  • Mapnik-utils - A variety of tools to work with Mapnik using CSS styles, command-line tools, and server-side scripts.
  • OpenLayers and Custom Tiles - Tips for server pre-generated Mapnik tiles with OpenLayers
  • Mapnik & OpenLayers - Example sites in the OpenLayers Gallery

• Topics
  • MapDesign -- how to use Mapnik to design better looking maps!
  • MapnikRenderers -- Render with AGG or Cairo
  • IntroductionToGIS -- a brief intro to the world of geographic information systems (projections, geodetics, and polygons, oh my)
  • SymbologySupport -- Tips, tricks and recipes for feature symbolization.
  • LabelingSupport -- Discover the intricacies of label placement.
  • OutputFormats -- Which format to use based on speed, quality, and rendering tradeoffs.
  • Generating Contours - Using Mapnik with GDAL to build contours of the world.
  • ManagingLargeXmlFiles -- Do things once and only once using XML entities.
  • Hooking up Mapnik to PostGIS

Developers Corner

• Discussions
  • StableMergeQueue - Mapnik stable releases
  • DebuggingMapnik -- TODO!
  • XmlFormatDiscussion -- freeform discussion on Mapnik's XML format
  • ShieldSymbolizerTests

• Bugs and Upcoming Features
  • DeveloperTodo (currently unsupported features in Mapnik)
  • Tickets by owner - See what to work on.

• Resources for Contributing
  • Active Un-Assigned Tickets (become an owner)
  • PluginArchitecture -- how to write new plugins or use existing datasource parsing plugins
  • Developers list: Signup | Search Archives
  • OpenStreetMap Tickets relating to the use of Mapnik

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.