Mapnik Debug

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.