Bug#402792: ITP: mapnik -- C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>

* Package name    : mapnik
  Version         : 0.3.0+svn??
  Upstream Author : Artem Pavlenko <pavlenko@users.berlios.de> et al
* URL             : http://www.mapnik.org/
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: C++, Python
  Description     : C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications

Mapnik is an OpenSource C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS
(Geographic Information Systems) applications. At the core is a C++
shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and
visualization.

Essentially a collection of geographic objects (map, layer, datasource,
feature, geometry), the library doesn't rely on "windowing systems" and
is intended to work in multi-threaded environments
 
High-level Python bindings (boost.python) facilitate rapid application
development, targeting zope3, django, etc.