---
name: "mapnik-viewer"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mapnik-viewer"
version: "0.0~svn1697-1+b2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mapnik-viewer"
---

# mapnik-viewer(1)

GUI for rendering and viewing maps based on Mapnik mapfiles

## NAME

mapnik-viewer - GUI for rendering and viewing maps based on Mapnik mapfiles

## SYNOPSIS

**mapnik-viewer**

## DESCRIPTION

The Mapnik Viewer is a GUI tool for rendering and viewing maps based on Mapnik XML mapfiles.

It can:

• tile images on-the-fly

• debug information on bad config files, points to the erroneous line

• shows scale and envelope for current view

• fast zooming and point-based attribute queries

• export to a variety of formats including tif

## AUTHOR

**mapnik-viewer** *was written by Artem Pavlenko.*

*This manual page was written by David Paleino \<dapal@debian.org\>,* *for the Debian project (and may be used by others).*