Bug 689201

Summary:	mapnik should depend on proj-epsg
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Karel Volný <kvolny>
Component:	mapnik	Assignee:	Alex Lancaster <alex>
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Description Karel Volný 2011-03-20 09:38:39 UTC

Description of problem:
Trying to use mapnik, I got this error:

proj_init_error:failed to initialize projection with:+init=epsg:4326

According to http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/InstallationTroubleshooting#Proj_init_error this is caused by wrong install of proj4

Doing simply "yum install proj-epsg" fixed the problem.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mapnik-0.7.1-6.fc14

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mapnik, set up your environment according to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapnik
2. generate_image.py

  
Actual results:
proj_init_error:failed to initialize projection with:+init=epsg:4326

the generated image.png is blank (all white)

Expected results:
no error, image.png shows the map

Additional info:
I'm not 100% sure that working with epsg codes is a must for all possible usages of mapnik ... however, if local setup for rendering OpenStreetMap data, which uses it by default, is the typical usage of mapnik, then it is a bit strange that it doesn't work out of the box.

Comment 1 Alex Lancaster 2011-11-22 20:48:58 UTC

Will try to add in the 0.7.2. update.

Comment 2 Alex Lancaster 2011-12-28 21:02:46 UTC

This dependency has been added in f17/rawhide with the update to mapnik 2.0.0.  Unlikely to get fixed in f14, now that it is EOL.

Comment 3 Karel Volný 2012-03-12 12:17:13 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Unlikely to get fixed in f14, now that it is EOL.

hehe, thanks anyways