Mapnik SDK is a useful package that is tailored for developers who aim to create original apps that are able to render various types of maps in a more attractive manner
Mapnik SDK is fully equipped with all the necessary components and documentation that will make it more easy for any programmer to integrate map recognition and rendering inside the applications they are building.
What's New in This Release:
· Removed 3 depedencies without loosing any functionality: `ltdl`, `cairomm` and `libsigc++` (#1804,#806,#1681)
· Added 64 bit integer support in expressions, feature ids, and the grid_renderer (#1661,#1662,#1662)
· Added the ability to disable the need for various dependencies: `proj4`, `libpng`, `libtiff`, `libjpeg`
· Added faster reprojection support between `epsg:3857` and `epsg:4326` (#1705,#1703,#1579)
· Fixed concurrency problem when using cursors in postgis plugin (#1823,#1588)
· Fixed postgres connection pool leaks when using `persist_connection=false` (#1764)
· Fixed postgres connection key to respect highest value of `max_size` and `initial_size` for any layer in map (#1599)
· Fixed potential crash in wkb parsing when postgis returns null geometry (#1843)
· Fixed blurry rendering of image and SVG icons (#1316)
· Added detection of invalid srs values when loading xml (#646)
· Added support for specifying a base_path as a third, optional argument to load_xml
· Removed muffling of projection errors ...