Release 0.6.1
Mapnik team is delighted to announce 0.6.1 release of Mapnik. Big kudos to everyone for their great work. I hope you're all having fun, I certainly am :). There are lots of bug fixes along with new features. More details can be found here:
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BTW, SOTM 2009 was awesome. Lots of interesting maps, most of them rendered with Mapnik. My favourite is:
Posted by Artem Pavlenko on July 14, 2009
How can you make a correction request to the Mapnik US Map that has errors. At the transition to adjcent maps the roads dont meet. i.e Orange park, FL Cheswick Oak Ave should be a strait road between the two map tiles. Help! Gerald
Gerald, Make a request at http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ under the 'mapnik' component. - Dane