Maps don’t always need to be interactive.

With libgd-gis v0.4.1, maps can now include built-in legends, rendered directly into the image — fully server-side in Ruby.

This makes maps self-explanatory artifacts:
• no frontend
• no JavaScript
• no screenshots
• style-driven rendering
• optional post-processing via map.image

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/02/10/when-maps-explain-themselves-legends-style-and-finished-images-in-ruby/

#Ruby #GIS #OpenSource #ImageProcessing #libgd

Upgraded to #NetBSD 10.1 and latest #pkgsrc, but the problem persisted.

Online searches revealed that an incompatibility between raqm and gd caused this problem. I managed to rebuild gd without raqm support (which I think adds or improves right-to-left font rendering capabilities for arabic and hebrew, which I don't need), and now it's all back to normal.😁

Add the following line to /etc/mk.conf:

PKG_OPTIONS.gd= -raqm

#libgd #raqm #zabbix #fonts

every so often i remember that the @sito project #gridcosm has a little graph of weekly activity. 📉 this is made by a cronjob that uses #libgd and #perl to make the image. it has just been quietly doing this for probably 15+ years(!) now. (on data that is > 25 years old). ⚙️

https://www.sito.org/cgi-bin/gridcosm/cosmost