Mapnik and the Mapnik-related tools have a series of useful debugging tools built into their repositories. Since these live across repos, it can be difficult to remember where they exist or even if know if they exist. This lists out all of the useful bin
commands that have been built for debugging purposes when working on Mapnik.
node-mapnik
located at: https://github.com/mapnik/node-mapnik/tree/master/bin
mapnik-index.js
mapnik-inspect.js
mapnik-render.js
mapnik-shapeindex.js
mapnik-vector-tile
These tools live in ./build/Release/
vtile-decode
vtile-encode
vtile-geometry-encode
vtile-transform
vtile-edit
vtileinfo
node-mapnik-bench
test.js
: this is a suite used for testing high-level node-mapnik
functions and recording the memory and time it takes based on different testcases that represent different geo data.