diff --git a/include/mapnik/xml_tree.hpp b/include/mapnik/xml_tree.hpp
index 966e034b0..25bd00d24 100644
--- a/include/mapnik/xml_tree.hpp
+++ b/include/mapnik/xml_tree.hpp
@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@
 #include <mapnik/css_color_grammar.hpp>
 #include <mapnik/unicode.hpp>
 
-// boost
-#include <boost/format.hpp>
-
 //stl
 #include <string>
 
diff --git a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_datasource.cpp b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_datasource.cpp
index 586a3442d..4b3be44ce 100644
--- a/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_datasource.cpp
+++ b/plugins/input/postgis/postgis_datasource.cpp
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
 // boost
 #include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
 #include <boost/tokenizer.hpp>
-#include <boost/format.hpp>
 #include <boost/make_shared.hpp>
 
 // stl
diff --git a/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.cpp b/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.cpp
index 729052df5..6a337cfd8 100644
--- a/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.cpp
+++ b/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.cpp
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 // boost
 #include <boost/algorithm/string/replace.hpp>
 #include <boost/make_shared.hpp>
+#include <boost/format.hpp>
 
 #include "raster_featureset.hpp"
 
diff --git a/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.hpp b/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.hpp
index 21d707af1..5d3c620a3 100644
--- a/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.hpp
+++ b/plugins/input/raster/raster_featureset.hpp
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 
 // boost
 #include <boost/utility.hpp>
-#include <boost/format.hpp>
 
 class single_file_policy
 {
diff --git a/src/color_factory.cpp b/src/color_factory.cpp
index d9a1e6971..5ede3e60e 100644
--- a/src/color_factory.cpp
+++ b/src/color_factory.cpp
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <mapnik/css_color_grammar.hpp>
 
 // boost
-#include <boost/format.hpp>
 #include <boost/version.hpp>
 
 // stl