Mapnik Development Team is announcing that Node-Mapnik with version number 3.3.1 is already available to download.
What is Node-Mapnik ?
Node-Mapnik is Node.js bindings for the Mapnik mapping toolkit, a simple tool to add mapping and geolocation features to any Node-powered application .
Mapnik is a C++ toolkit for developing map-centric applications.Mapnik is also one of the tools used to create the famous OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapping project.On the other hand, Node-Mapnik is a JavaScript client for this toolkit, allowing Node.js developers to create mapping applications that inter-connect with a local or remote Mapnik installation and access one or more of its mapping features and tools.This library comes with tests and examples.
This is changelog for Node-Mapnik version 3.3.1 :
- Ugraded to Mapnik 3.x version with totally new geometry storage
- Upgrade to mapnik-vector-tile@0.8.0
- Upgraded to node-pre-gyp@0.6.5
- Added an additional parameter to Projection initialization. This prevents the initialization of a proj4 object internally. This will only be useful when reprojecting from epsg:4326 to epsg:3857 and vise versa.
You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: github.com