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elvin ibbotson wrote:
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color="#444444" face="Verdana" size="3">Very nice but it needs
DirectX. I cut my map programming teeth on a viewer for British OS maps
which uses Java 3D (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html">http://britain.poco.org.uk/desktop.html</a>).
I can’t share it because of copyright restrictions on the maps, but the
principle would apply to any map source including OSM. Why not use Java
instead of Microsoft stuff then it would run on anything. There’s an
awful lot of us using Linux or Macs - anything but Windows!. I like the
idea of Kosmos but - MS .net!!</font></p>
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Guys, I understand what you're saying and in general I agree, it's
better to use an open and portable technology than a closed-source like
MS. But I live in a real world, my programming skills are in C# and
MS.NET (mostly because I also use it in professional life, for which
I'm only partly to blame). If I had decided 10 months ago that I'll
start implementing Kosmos in Java (not to mention migrating from
Windows to Linux), then Kosmos would now still be just a simple
command-line tool (or maybe I would have given up, who knows). It's the
experience in a technology that allows me to concentrate on a concrete
problem I'm solving and not on the nitty-gritties of a particular
technology.<br>
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While I believe in portable apps, I find portable GUI-s to be quite
lacking regarding the user experience (at least on Windows, I don't
know about other OS's). There are exceptions, of course.<br>
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Anyway, Kosmos is open-source (I'll release the new source with the
upcoming 2.1 release) and has quite a liberal license so if anyone's
interested and has the time and will, he can "cannibalize" the code and
make something new and portable.<br>
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Igor<br>
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