Results 55 issues of Andy Allan

It's hard to follow progress if there isn't a changelog explaining what new feature there are and which have changed.

There's currently two 'special' geometries - `point75` and `line-with-gap` - which are purely artifacts of a particular style I was using and don't make sense in a wider context. It...

There's examples, but that's not the same thing. We now have various advanced things like - descriptions - `layer` vs `layers` - multiple `parts` These should be fully described.

I've started to refactor into sensible classes, so writing some tests should be much easier. rspec is the preferred option.

It's currently hardcoded and not everyone will want it.

92a63df93367aa0678600c60dd960db9c094904b shows a problem with the current approach of creating the datasource. In a complex layer, there will be many rules referring to many attributes. We currently have to list...

The documentation for shield-margin is: > Minimum distance that a shield can be placed from any other text, shield, or marker. The documentation for text-margin is: > Minimum distance that...

https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/TextSymbolizer From mapnik 2.1, the placement types were expanded to dummy, simple and list. Only dummy and simple values are currently in the reference. Also, the corresponding element also needs...

There's an alternative approach to creating a mapnik rubygem at https://github.com/scooterw/ffi-mapnik and I've heard reports that it works fine. If so, then perhaps we should ditch Rice and use that...

When running the tests we receive the error: ``` 1) Error: test_should_add_a_geometry(TestMapnikFeature): ArgumentError: Unable to convert Fixnum to long long ``` The test is [straighforward](https://github.com/mapnik/Ruby-Mapnik/blob/b5562a306fdc2e258ae2d150db6afa53b8de2de4/test/test_mapnik_feature.rb#L13): ``` assert feature = Mapnik::Feature.new(Mapnik::Context.new,...