Release 0.5.0

I'm very pleased to announce Mapnik 0.5.0. It has been a long time in development, but I hope it was worth waiting for. This release brings numerous stability and performance improvements. I am particularly excited to see Mapnik performing well in multi-threaded setups, offering scalability.

During 2007, Mapnik has been deployed in a number of diverse environments, rendering maps 24/7. Here are some people who use Mapnik :

List of some new/improved features:

  • support for native builds on Mac OS X (both Tiger and Leopard)
  • support for single/multi-threading variants
  • gdal raster support
  • more comprehensive text label placement functionality (min_distance, spacing)
  • viewer - qt4 based application
  • character encoding support (iconv)
  • changed internal geometry representation to explicitly support multi-geometries
  • placement_finder is re-factored
  • optional libxml2 based map loader (internal and external entities)
  • image quantization
  • support for image 'views'
  • improved 'memory file' based i/o in shape input plug-in
  • support for 'numeric' type in postgis input plug-in
  • saving images directly into Python string
  • win32 binaries built with VC++ express

***This is a major feature enhancement as well as a bugfix release and everyone is encouraged to upgrade***

Thanks to everyone involved, I really appreciate your help. And let's make Mapnik even better this year!

Artem

Posted by Artem Pavlenko on February 7, 2008

Comments

2008-02-12 04:14:02 - Appreciative User

Thank you for all your hard work on this, it is greatly appreciated over here in Toronto.

2008-02-12 16:07:13 - Artem Pavlenko

Appreciative, Thank you very much :)

2008-02-14 19:11:16 - Paul Smith

I'm a little late to the release party, but congratulations, Artem and the Mapnik team, excellent work.

2008-02-16 10:54:56 - Artem Pavlenko

Thanks Paul! Maybe soon we'll deserve a real party :)

2008-02-18 23:09:23 - Jim Waite

Hi Artem. Great work! I understand that the windows binaries were built using MSVC++ express edition (please correct me if I am wrong). Is there a project file for MSVC++ available anywhere (I checked the subversion repository but could not find it) Thanks again for all the hard work, Jim.

2008-02-19 09:53:33 - Artem Pavlenko

Jim, thanks! Yes, I use vc++ express and Boost.Build.v2. It is not in svn, yet. If you're interested in win32 build system I suggest you join mapnik-devel. Cheers, Artem

2008-02-20 00:59:22 - Jim Waite

Hi Artem. Thanks, I have joined mapnik-devel. I found your win32 build files refered to in the October2007 archive of mapnik-devel. I will start from there... Jim.

2008-03-11 13:20:55 - esync.de

if someone convert mapnik to java, or write a wrapper function for it -> feel free to contact me.

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