New version update (v0.2.0)

New features:

• Symbolize shapefiles based on their attributes and add legend (categorical, equal classes, equal interval, natural breaks)
• Choose between multiple symbolizer icons: circle, square, pyramid
• Zoom the map to a region of interest
• Manually draw basic geometries and write text on map
• Functions that allow mid-script interactive user-inputs
• Support for the Pillow version of PIL, and improved PIL quality by using antialiasing
• Changed to MIT license to be more contributor friendly

Incompatible changes with previous version:

• Make and style a layer, then add to map, instead of adding to map directly from file
• Color now has to be explicitly set and is no longer random by default
• Support for PyCairo has been temporarily discontinued due to some difficulties, so is likely to have errors

Errors fixed:

• Fixed error with interactively saving image from the viewer window in PIL mode

First release version (v0.1.0)

Note: This is the same version that's been available from the code repository for a while now, I just didn't know until now that I could package it as a cataloged release package.

Main features:

• Pure Python (i.e. no installation troubles)
• Quick viewing of single shapefiles and saving them as images.
• Creating maps with multiple shapefiles, custom background, and custom mapsize.
• Assigning colors to each shapefile.
• Helper utilities to extract and map all shapefiles in a folder.
• Can use multiple renderer libraries including Aggdraw, PIL, PyCairo, and the built-in Tkinter Canvas.
• Python 2.x only.