Mapnik is the tool that we will use to produce our maps. It's a very powerful mapping library used by many websites.
In this first topic, we will go through some experiments to get to know Mapnik's features.
Now we will perform a few experiments with Mapnik in order to know how it works. First, let's organize the code for this chapter:
Inside your
geopy
project, copy theChapter4
folder and rename it toChapter5
.Inside the
Chapter5
folder, create a new folder namedmapnik_experiments
. To do that, right-click in yourChapter5
folder and choose New | Directory.Still in
Chapter5
, create another folder namedoutput
; we will place the maps and images we create into that folder.