Mapnik Utilities

Third party scripts, applications, and approaches for working with mapnik

Add more here as you find them.

OgcServer

Python-based WMS 1.1 and 1.3 server.

See OgcServer for more info. (part of the Mapnik python bindings)

MapnikViewer

A QT Desktop App for interactively viewing XML mapfiles

See MapnikViewer for more info.

Shapeindex

Shapeindex - Quad-tree shapefile indexes for a serious speed boost

Installed as part of the SCons build.

Mod Tile

Mod Tile - The tool OSM uses to render mapnik tiles for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/

• OSM Slippy Map - Overview OSM rendering | Roll your own

TileCache

TileCache - Use WMS-C to render tiles dynamically, or cached | Example in OL

Cascadenik

Mapnik-utils - Cascading Stylesheets For Mapnik

Nik2Img

Nik2Img -- Read in an XML mapfile and output a map

Spreadnik

Spreadnik - An utility to simplify work with big mapnik stylesheets

OpenLayers

OpenLayers and Custom Tiles - Tips for server pre-generated Mapnik tiles with OpenLayers