Mapnik's OGC Server

This page dicusses all things related to supporting OpenGeospatial Consortium (OGC) server related specifications in Mapnik.

As of 0.3.0, Mapnik provides a Web Mapping Service (WMS) compliant server.

It supports both versions 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 of the specification.

It supports all operations:

• GetCapabilities
• GetMap
• GetFeatureInfo (As of 0.4.0)

Requirements:

• Python
• CGI and/or FastCGI
• jonpy
• lxml
• PROJ.4
• PIL (Python Imaging Library)

Plans for the future:

• Add more "connectors" such as WSGI, SimpleHTTPServer, etc ...
• Add support for text/xml and text/html to GetFeatureInfo (only supports text/plain in 0.4.0)
• Investigate WMS-C integration

For details looks in /docs/ogcserver/readme.txt.