[OSM-dev] Kosmos and SharpMap

[Francisco R. Santos]

Hi Igor,

Thanks fro the reply. I don't know the capabilities of SharpMap, but for
what he commented, I assumed this library could replace many of your drawing
code because of the many primitives it contains, so you don't need to code
it from scratch. I don't know if it does image georeferencing or
rectification, but it seems that there is a new 2.0 version coming soon with
many more options. Maybe is this the version you need?

Regards,
Quico

2008/7/20 Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com>:

> Hi Francisco,
>
> First the quick answer: no, Kosmos is not using SharpMap. I knew about
> SharpMap for some time, but when I started Kosmos is was just an experiment
> on implementing a simple tile server for OSM. Most of the work was on
> defining and implementing a rule engine and processing OSM data with it. The
> drawing part was (at first) simple, it grew in size simply because I added
> more and more optimizations to draw maps more quickly.
>
> SharpMap offers a large set of features valuable for GIS development, but
> Kosmos is still more or less an OSM-oriented tool, so the code is OSM data
> structure-oriented and I'll keep it that way for now.  But what I am looking
> for is .NET libraries for stuff that I really don't want to handle myself:
> image georeferencing (GeoTIFFs for example), rectification - I'm not sure if
> SharpMap does this?
>
> It would be interesting to see the performance of SharpMap-developed tool
> for OSM rendering. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to work on OSM -
> SharpMap integration (maybe your friend does? :) ). I can help with the code
> and any questions.
>
> Igor
>
> Francisco R. Santos wrote:
>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> A friend of mine has a pet project in C#, with some contour and relief
>> renderings (no roads, terrain only), so I thought of showing him Kosmos.
>> Then he saw the code and asked me if it uses SharpMap[1]. As I don't program
>> in C#, I didn't know what he was talking about, so he showed me this library
>> that handles many GIS formats and draws maps in many ways [2].
>>
>> So, the question is, can SharpMap be useful to Kosmos?. I think that if
>> you use this library, you can spare many, many lines of drawing code and
>> concentrate in the OSM parts. If not, as you already have the code to import
>> a .osm file, a OSM importer for this library could be very useful to other
>> people using it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Quico
>>
>> [1] http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap
>> [2]
>> http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home<
>> http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home
>> >
>>
>
>
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