Release 0.2.5a

I'm very pleased to announce mapnik's new release. We've been working hard to get here. The main focus of this release is to provide a better user experience while installing mapnik, which hopefully will bring more people on board. I know, there is room for further improvements but this is a step in the right direction. This release offers:

  1. new build system
  2. new INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
  3. new symbolizers (polygon/line patterns)
  4. lots of fixes.

Big thanks go to Jean-François Doyon, who in his spare time, refactored mapnik's source tree and wrote a better build system using SCons.
Enjoy!

Posted by artemp on 01 February 2006.