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Mapping with Drupal and Mapnik

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Submitted by jmiccolis on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 20:56.
Placement
Session time: 
08/30/2008 - 13:30 - 08/30/2008 - 14:30

Overview

Mapnick is an opensource mapping framework that generates great maps, you can read more here. This is intended to be an high-level discussion about using mapnick as a WMS server, setting it up, what it does, how it can be extentended. We'll talk about integrating Drupal with mapnik using lightweight tools to create beautiful maps.

Agenda

We'll talk about:

  • What mapnik does.
  • How to get it running.
  • Interfacing with Drupal.
  • Alterative ways to handle location data in Drupal.

Resources

http://mapnik.org/

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When?

Hello,

Sounds like a great BoF but when and where is it :)

Cheers,

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David Peterson
Semantic Web R&D
Australia

david@boab.info
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Gábor Hojtsy's picture

not scheduled yet

Not scheduled yet as it seems.

jmiccolis's picture

Sorry for the delay here,

Sorry for the delay here, I've scheduled the bof now - for Saturday in the 13:30 slot.