Mapnik Utilities
Third party scripts, applications, and approaches for working with mapnik
Add more here as you find them.
Styling Tools
Cascadenik
Mapnik-utils - Cascading Stylesheets For Mapnik
Spreadnik
Spreadnik - An utility to simplify work with big mapnik stylesheets
Carto
Carto - Extended, Fast Styling for Mapnik
Mapping UI
OpenLayers
OpenLayers and Custom Tiles - Tips for server pre-generated Mapnik tiles with OpenLayers
Polymaps
Tile Servers
Mod Tile
Mod Tile - The tool OSM uses to render mapnik tiles for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/
- OSM Slippy Map - Overview OSM rendering | Roll your own
TileCache
TileCache - Use WMS-C to render tiles dynamically, or cached | Example in OL
WMS Servers
OgcServer
Python-based WMS 1.1 and 1.3 server.
See OgcServer for more info.
Paleoserver
C++ WMS server.
See Paleoserver for more info.
Desktop Tools
MapnikViewer
A QT Desktop App for interactively viewing XML mapfiles
See MapnikViewer for more info.
Quantumnik
Plugin to QGIS for using Mapnik
See http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/
Nik2Img
Nik2Img -- Read in an XML mapfile and output a map
Shapeindex
Shapeindex - Quad-tree shapefile indexes for a serious speed boost
Installed as part of the SCons build.