About mapnik: I decided that using thumb and non-free will be the best approach - why should we use non-thumb when we can use thumb. Unfortunately no one seems to bother to fix an awful extras-devel import bug: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=112

So when modrana starts to use some mapnik code, let me know and I'll rethink what can be done at that point.