Bindings to Mapnik for node.

var mapnik = require('mapnik');
var http = require('http');

var port = 8000;
var stylesheet = './examples/stylesheet.xml';

http.createServer(function(req, res) {
  res.writeHead(500, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  var map = new mapnik.Map(256, 256);
  map.load(stylesheet,
    function(err,map) {
      if (err) {
          res.end(err.message);
      }
      map.zoomAll();
      var im = new mapnik.Image(256, 256);
      map.render(im, function(err,im) {
        if (err) {
            res.end(err.message);
        } else {
            im.encode('png', function(err,buffer) {
                if (err) {
                    res.end(err.message);
                } else {
                    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'image/png'});
                    res.end(buffer);
                }
            });
        }
      });
   }
  );
}).listen(port);

Note: to run this example locally first do:

export NODE_PATH=./lib:${NODE_PATH}

For more sample code see 'examples/README.md'

• Node >= v0.6.0
• Mapnik 2.1 (current master): (at least e8541e1685 / January 9, 2012)

First install Mapnik master from github:

git clone https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik.git

For more details see: https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Mapnik-Installation

Confirm that the mapnik-config program is available and on your $PATH.

To install node-mapnik locally for development or testing do:

git clone git://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik.git
cd node-mapnik
./configure
make

Then, if you have expresso installed you can run the tests:

make test

Or set NODE_PATH to test importing:

export NODE_PATH=./lib
node -e "require.resolve('mapnik')"

Or you can also install via npm

npm install mapnik

The above will install node-mapnik locally in a node_modules folder. To install globally do:

npm install -g mapnik

To see if things are working try rendering a world map with the sample data

From the source checkout root do:

export NODE_PATH=./lib
./examples/simple/render.js ./examples/stylesheet.xml map.png

To require node-mapnik as a depedency of another package put in your package.json:

"dependencies"  : { "mapnik":"0.6.x" }

See the 'examples/' folder for more usage examples.

To run the expresso tests first install expresso.

npm install -g expresso

Then run:

make test

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