go-mapnik

Description

Small wrapper for the Mapnik 3/4 API to render beautiful maps from Go.

Features:

• Render to []byte, image.Image, or file.
• Set scale denominator or scale factor.
• Enable/disable single layers.

Installation

This package requires Mapnik (libmapnik on Ubuntu/Debian, mapnik in Homebrew).

Since v3 of this package you need to call go generate . to create a build_config.go file with all system dependent build flags. Before v3, go-mapnik required setting CGO_* environment variables. The new method is easier, but it does not work when you go get/import go-mapnik. It is recommended to manually vendorize the package into your repo (e.g via git subtree).

Example

func Example() {
	m := mapnik.New()
	if err := m.Load("test/map.xml"); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	m.Resize(1000, 500)
	m.ZoomTo(-180, -90, 180, 90)
	opts := mapnik.RenderOpts{Format: "png32"}
	if err := m.RenderToFile(opts, "/tmp/go-mapnik-example-1.png"); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

Documentation

API documentation can be found here: http://godoc.org/github.com/omniscale/go-mapnik

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.

Author

Oliver Tonnhofer, Omniscale

Thanks

This package is inspired/based on mapnik-c-api by Dane Springmeyer and go-mapnik by Fabian Wickborn.