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Mapnik 0.5.1 Released
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The Mapnik project announced the release of Mapnik 0.5.1. From the announcement: "This is a minor bugfix release; it is a recommended upgrade for users of 0.5.0. This release includes the following changes:
- builds with GCC 4.3,
- re-enables regex support, which was inadvertently disabled in 0.5.0,
- add better error handling to shapeindex,
- support ppc64 builds,
- fix division by zero error in placement_finder.cpp with multiple loops"
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Mapnik.org announced the release of Mapnik 0.5.0. From the site: "This release brings numerous stability and performance improvements. I am particularly excited to see Mapnik performing well in multi-threaded setups, offering scalability. [...] Here are some people who use Mapnik : OpenStreetMap,
OSM Cycle Map,
EveryBlock,
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10East,
Placebase,
Heritage Walks [...] 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 [list continued on the site]" Older geoblog entries regarding Mapnik includes a comparison with MapServer by PerryGeo and comparisons with Google Maps tiles and API from Mapperz.
Mapnik 0.5.1 Released
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