Thread: [SailfishOS] [WIP] Merkator - Offline map application & engine
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2014-12-18 , 23:46
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#11
Originally Posted by Custodian View Post
I dont know why none of map apps written in python uses Mapnik(or other tools) for offline processing/generation for instance. It is working well on jolla, since this is python + postgresql.
To my mind - they are slow.
there is working Mapnik on the Jolla ? I only know about Marmisterzs heroic port for the N900 and haven't seen any working one for Jolla (I've tried to import some of the OpenSUSE Mapnik packages to my Mer OBS project but without much success in building them so far).

I'm asking because Mapnik is quite a beast, and definitely not just Python and Postgresql (which itself also does not yet run on the Jolla AFAIK) - there is boost, harfbuzz, cairo, freetype, libproj, ...
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