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Magnacarto is a new open-ource tool that makes it easier to create map styles for MapServer and Mapnik. It uses CartoCSS - a styling language similar to CSS - to create both Mapfiles for Mapserver and XML-files for Mapnik. CartoCSS provides powerful functions: You can create base-styles and extend them for specific map scales or attributes. This avoids unnecessary repetition for similar map objects. CartoCSS styles are typically just 1/5th to 1/10th of the length of comparable mapfiles. With variables, expressions and color functions (darken, lighten, mix, etc) it