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| Original author(s) | Artem Pavlenko |
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| Developer(s) | The Mapnik Contributors |
| Stable release | 4.0.2[1] 
/ 21 August 2024 |
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| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | mapnik |
Mapnik is an open-source mapping toolkit for desktop and server based map rendering, written in C++. Artem Pavlenko, the original developer of Mapnik, set out with the explicit goal of creating beautiful maps[2] by employing the sub-pixel anti-aliasing of the Anti-Grain Geometry (AGG) library. Mapnik now also has a Cairo rendering backend. For handling common software tasks such as memory management, file system access, regular expressions, and XML parsing, Mapnik utilizes the Boost C++ libraries. An XML file can be used to define a collection of mapping objects that determine the appearance of a map, or objects can be constructed programmatically in C++, Python, and Node.js.
- ^ "Release 4.0.2". 21 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ Beautiful Maps as an explicit goal in the Mapnik FAQ