[OSM-talk] simplifying mapnik layout definition

[Tom Hughes]

In message <11b08d4a0805270802l452cdcd6ub2d2fd71358d64d4 at mail.gmail.com>
        Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never played around with mapnik, but to me it looks like it's
> trying to be an interpreter when it does not have to be. It's rules
> file should be the input to a text preprocessor like M4, CPP , bash or
> whatever this popular this decade. The output of the preprocessor will
> then have a strict format where every parameter is explicitly
> specified.

There's nothing stopping you generating a mapnik configuration
file from a set of templates using M4 or CPP or whatever other
preprocessor you like. You don't need mapnik to do it for you.

In fact mapnik doing it for you would have the disadvantage of
restricting you to whatever preprocessor it choose.

Tom

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