Oct 26, 2010
I’ve written a starter “hello world” datasource plugin (aka input
) for Mapnik.
It should be useful as a starting point for anyone writing their own plugin. It also serves as an example of how to develop plugins that are standalone and do not live inside of Mapnik core. While we do maintain a handful of plugins in core the design is for plugins to be external to Mapnik.
It renders nothing more than:
To get started developing see the sample repository at github: https://github.com/mapnik/hello-world-input-plugin.