[OSM-dev] mapnik - can you output image bytes directly?

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 14 Mar 2007, at 20:05, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> On 3/14/07, Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Artem,
>>
>> With Mapnik is it possible to output the image bytes directly to  
>> stdout,
>> rather than write to file? I want to do this in Freemap to save  
>> writing the
>> map image and then opening it again. Looking at the source I can't  
>> see
>> anywhere, but might have missed something.
>
> When all else fails you could always try giving /dev/fd/1 as the  
> filename.
>

Yes, you could try this on *nix :) Doesn't feel like the best   
solution though.

Cheers,
Artem