Author name: kostas

China in a few years?

Completely off topic. Just a thought, is this what China will look like in a few years? A country of old people, governed by the children of the one-child policy era… Wonder how that will affect the current financial situation in the west.

OpenStreetMap tiles with custom projection and grid using Mapnik

Previous effort In a previous post I tried generating OpenStreetMap tiles using GeoServer. It ended when I couldn’t find a good style (SLD) to apply the OSM layer. The (new) idea, that also failed miserably In this post I tried to use Mapnik to generating OSM map tiles in EPSG:25832. It failed mainly because the …

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Check if shared library is installed on Mac OS X

One way to check whether a library is installed is to use ld, e.g. check that zlib is installed: ld -lzlibld -lzlib If library is installed you’ll get something like this: ld: warning: -arch not specified ld: could not find entry point "start" (perhaps missing crt1.o) for inferred architecture x86_64ld: warning: -arch not specified ld: …

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