MapnikUtilities.md

+## Mapnik Utilities
+
+Third party scripts, applications, and approaches for working with mapnik
+
+Add more here as you find them.
+
+
+## Styling Tools
+### Cascadenik
+
+[Mapnik-utils](http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/) - Cascading Stylesheets For Mapnik
+
+### Spreadnik
+
+[Spreadnik](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Spreadnik) - An utility to simplify work with big mapnik stylesheets
+
+### Carto
+
+[Carto](https://github.com/mapbox/carto) - Extended, Fast Styling for Mapnik
+
+## Mapping UI
+
+### OpenLayers
+
+[OpenLayers and Custom Tiles](http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/UsingCustomTiles) - Tips for server pre-generated Mapnik tiles with OpenLayers
+
+### Polymaps
+
+http://polymaps.org/
+
+
+## Tile Servers
+
+### Mod Tile
+
+[Mod Tile](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mod_tile) - The tool OSM uses to render mapnik tiles for http://tile.openstreetmap.org/  
+ * [OSM Slippy Map](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Slippy_Map) - Overview OSM rendering | [Roll your own](http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Deploying_your_own_Slippy_Map)
+
+### TileCache
+
+[TileCache](http://tilecache.org/) - Use WMS-C to render tiles dynamically, or cached | [Example in OL](http://labs.metacarta.com/osm/)
+
+
+## WMS Servers
+
+### OgcServer
+
+Python-based WMS 1.1 and 1.3 server.
+
+See [OgcServer](https://github.com/mapnik/OGCServer) for more info.
+
+### Paleoserver
+
+C++ WMS server.
+
+See [[Paleoserver]] for more info.
+
+## Desktop Tools
+
+### MapnikViewer
+
+A QT Desktop App for interactively viewing XML mapfiles
+
+See [[MapnikViewer]] for more info.
+
+### Quantumnik
+Plugin to QGIS for using Mapnik
+
+See http://bitbucket.org/springmeyer/quantumnik/
+
+## Nik2Img
+
+[Nik2Img](Nik2Img) -- Read in an XML mapfile and output a map
+
+## Shapeindex
+
+[Shapeindex](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/tree/master/utils/shapeindex) - Quad-tree shapefile indexes for a serious speed boost
+
+Installed as part of the SCons build.
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