Mapnik

What is Mapnik?

Mapnik is an open-source mapping toolkit for desktop and server based map rendering, written in C++. Artem Pavlenko, the original developer of Mapnik, set out with the explicit goal of creating beautiful maps by employing the sub-pixel anti-aliasing of the Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) library. Mapnik now also has a Cairo rendering backend. For handling common software tasks such as memory management, file system access, regular expressions, and XML parsing, Mapnik utilizes the Boost C++ libraries. An XML file can be used to define a collection of mapping objects that determine the appearance of a map, or objects can be constructed programmatically in C++, Python, and Node.js.

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Required Operating Systems

• cross-platform
• german wikipedia

Used Programming Languages

• 19 july 2018
• c++
• https://www.openhub.net/p/mapnik/analyses/latest/languages summary
• open hub
• the mapnik open source project on open hub: languages page

Important Persons & Organizations

• artem pavlenko
• the mapnik contributors