Bindings to the Mapnik tile rendering library for node.
var mapnik = require('mapnik');
var http = require('http');
var port = 8000;
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
var map = new mapnik.Map(256,256);
map.load("./examples/stylesheet.xml");
map.zoom_all();
map.render(map.extent(),"png",function(err,buffer){
if (err) {
res.writeHead(500, {'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
res.end(err.message);
} else {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type':'image/png'});
res.end(buffer);
}
});
}).listen(port);
For more see 'examples/'
Prototype at this point, API will be frequently changing.
Developed on OS X (10.6)
Tested on Debian Squeeze and Centos 5.4.
node (development headers)
mapnik (latest trunk >r2397)
node-pool for some examples (npm install generic-pool)
Install node-mapnik:
$ git clone git://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik.git
$ cd node-mapnik
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ node test.js
Make sure the node modules is on your path:
export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node/
For more details see 'docs/install.txt'
Or you can install via npm:
$ npm install mapnik
To see if things are working try rendering a world map with the sample data
From the source checkout root do:
$ examples/render.js examples/stylesheet.xml map.png
See the 'examples/' folder for more usage examples.
BSD, see LICENSE.txt