New Mapnik Release 0.3.0
Today, Artem Pavlenko - the leader of Mapnik project - announced new release of Mapnik 0.3.0. Mapnik is a Free Toolkit for developing mapping applications. New version brings rich set of new features.
Here I pasted Artem’s e-mail posted on the FreeGIS list:
I’m pleased to announce a new release of Mapnik - 0.3.0. It’s been a
long time but we have lots of new features, bug fixes, improvements.Here are the major features:
1. License changed from GPL to LGPL
2. Python-based WMS server (WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0)
3. New Renderer interface
4. New Feature model
5. Font engine and text symbolization
6. Python and C++ demos
7. win32 support - yes, mapnik can be compiled (tested with vc-8_0) and happily runs on windows now. (In the future win32 binaries and/or build instructions will be provided)
8. x86_64 support
If you’d like to see what Mapnik can do for you, look at its styling capabilities.