[OSM-dev] Mapnik Q: enhance resolution?

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 9 Mar 2008, at 10:42, Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <18D7C55E-F25A-4222-B7C3-1CDD62346E02 at gmail.com>
>           Artem Pavlenko <artem.mapnik at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Vector based symbols are on my TODO list. Should we aim to support
>> SVG  (ie. tiny profile) ? Or something simpler like filled/stroked
>> paths would suffice ?
>
> I was assuming SVG personally - at the very least we probably want
> to provide a tool that can convert from SVG or something or it will
> be hard for people to create symbols.

Yes, subset of SVG makes sense.

>> Main problem with cairo - it is not reflected in Python bindings,  
>> yet.
>>
>> Should we have something like :
>>
>> agg = agg_renderer(m, im)
>> agg.render()
>>
>>
>> cairo = cairo_renderer(m,im)
>> cairo.render()
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> I did look at this briefly - one issue is whether to wrap the cairo
> surface object that is passed to the renderer using boost::python as
> for everything else, or to use the existing cairo python bindings.

Good point. How about supporting both?

>
> Tom
>
> -- 
> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> http://www.compton.nu/

Artem