Andy's wishlist for mapnik 3.0

issues.md

My Mapnik 3.0 wish-list

These are the top ten issues that I run into the most often

• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1428 - Merge Harfbuzz branch
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1484 - Smooth parameter for TextSymbolizer
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/828 - All values should become expressions
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/13 - Rendering text labels when labels length exceeds the length of the line
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1793 - Gaps rendered between overlapping polygons
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1152 - Try successively line and then point placements for TextSymbolizer
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1486 - MarkersSymbolizer doesn't like squiggly lines
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/628 - Fit dashed lines to endpoints
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/529 - Addition of different text effects like underline, outline may be strikethrought
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1030 - Rotation in marker symbolizer for linestrings

How about yours?

Support for Dymo-like label placement: https://github.com/migurski/Dymo
zoom level as variable of expression

mapnik/mapnik#1034 by a relatively wide margin - especially since the former "good" use case is currently broken with 2.2 too!