New Release 0.4.0

Dear all,
Mapnik 0.4.0 is out!
This is a major feature enhancement as well as a bug fix release.The new features include :

  • Projection transformations
  • Multiple named styles in WMS
  • 'Line following' text labels
  • 'Shield' symbolizer
  • Feature querying
  • Character encodings support
  • GetFeatureInfo with text/plain and text/xml output
  • Support for right to left languages

Thank you to:Jean-Francois Doyon, Vince Spader, Vincent Schut, Toby Collet, David Leaver,Ehud Shabtai, Christopher Schmidt, Jon Burgess, John Hague and everybody else involved for helping to make Mapnik a great project!

Also big thanks to GeospatialVision for supporting mapnik development and 10East.com for sponsoring hosting.

Enjoy!
Artem

Posted by artemp on 26 February 2007.