node-mapnik examples

Examples are designed to be run from the root like:

node ./examples/simple/render.js examples/stylesheet.xml map.png

Depends

A few examples have other dependencies. Install all possible like:

npm install express generic-pool get

Examples are arranged into topic directories:

• simple - simple, single image renderers. Start here.
• tile - TMS style tileservers. Also includes PostGIS example.
• wms - WMS servers
• memory_datasource - rendering of native javascript objects using in memory features created up front

Other files

• utils - helper methods
• data - world map shapefile used in examples
• stylesheet.xml - sample mapnik xml stylesheet

Using examples

To run most examples, read the code then execute their app.js file.

In tile examples you can view the output in polymaps via tile/index.html