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Mapnik is a work in progress. There are multiple updates almost every day. If you are a developer grab the latest source from subversion repository. For the rest there is a packaged tarball with the latest release. Hit the button above!

Latest News

Release 0.6.0

by Artem Pavlenko on April 1, 2009

The Mapnik team is pleased to announce our 0.6.0 release.

This release has tons of new features, improved stability and better usability.

It has been made possible by contributions from our growing Mapnik community! Special thanks to Dane Springmeyer for all his efforts along the way. To see release highlights and a full list of new features:

Thanks to everyone involved for their great work!

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Release 0.5.1

by Artem Pavlenko on April 15, 2008

Hello all, I'm pleased to announce 0.5.1 release.

This is a minor bugfix release; it is a recommended upgrade for users of 0.5.0. This release includes the following changes:

builds with GCC 4.3
re-enables regex support, which was inadvertently disabled in 0.5.0
add better error handling to shapeindex
support ppc64 builds
fix division by zero error in placement_finder.cpp with multiple loops

Big thanks to Dominic Hargreaves for making it happen!

Mapnik consulting

by Artem Pavlenko on March 11, 2008

Hello all!
I would like to introduce Mapnik Consulting . I have been consulting for a few years now, but I think the time has come to move things up a gear. Have a look, it even has 'rounded' corners:).

While Mapnik itself plays a central role, my consultancy goes beyond just rendering maps. We offer a wide range of geospatial services.

This in no way means that Mapnik will be overlooked, if anything I'm hoping to increase the pace of development!

Cheers!

Anonymous SVN access

All mapnik's files are maintained in a SVN (subversion) repository. You will need a SVN client installed on your machine. You can use the command-line client or GUI - it's up to you.

Please, consult subversion documentation on client availibility for your platform, usage etc.

Using command-line client you can checkout the latest snapshot like this:
(Anonymous SVN Access via HTTP)

svn co http://svn.mapnik.org/trunk/ mapnik

(Anonymous SVN Access via svn://)

svn co svn://svn.mapnik.org/trunk/ mapnik

You can also browse source files through web-based SVN repository access.

Once you have downloaded the Mapnik source code see the Mapnik Install guides mac, linux, and windows or the overall install README on Trac or in your local SVN directory.