[OSM-dev] GSoC - Data Tile Service

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi Stefan,

On Montag, 21. Mai 2012 00:32:32 Stefan Keller wrote:
> 2012/5/20 Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
> @Thorsten: The video you mention shows no website nor contact about
> the "Marble" project. Could you share more details here? Is it "KDE
> Marble" [0]?

Yes, it's the "Marble Virtual Globe".   The term "KDE Marble" might be 
partially misleading since Marble doesn't require KDE or KDE libraries as a 
hard dependency. The only most basic requirement of Marble itself is Qt.

You can reach us via our mailing lists, IRC channel, web forums or social 
networks: 

http://edu.kde.org/marble/support.php
 
> * Choosing XML for this does not make sense to me, since human
> readability has low priority. 

Well, as I said we just plan to start off with that approach due to being 
pragmatic. If you come up with a better approach we might add it later on :-)

BR,
Torsten 

> There exists the WFS standard from OGC
> which covers this.
> The use case here demands performance so we should think about a
> compact slim format like GeoJSON - or even more compressed.
> * Problem: Since we are speaking about "vector tiling" it's
> unavoidable that polygons are clipped, which makes me wonder on how
> the client is informed and how he should deal with this?
> 
> @Michael:
> * In the website you refer to [1] there's mentioned "Similar to kothic
> js tile format": Why only "similar"? Why don't you not base/fork on
> Kothic/KothicJS?
> * I'm little bit confused about the project documentation of your
> "GSoC - Data Tile Service" since on "GSoc Project Ideas" [2] your name
> still is related to the project "Update Monitoring API". And in
> "AcceptedProjects" [3] it does not appear. These wiki pages perhaps
> need some care.
> 
> Yours, Stefan
> 
> [0] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KDE_Marble
> [1]
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Data_Tile_Se
> rvice [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2012
> [3]
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/AcceptedProj
> ects