[Mapcss] Kothic JS - a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas
Alex Zolotarev
alex at mapswithme.com
Wed Jul 6 16:03:02 BST 2011
Hi Paul,
Have you finished your perl script which translates existing Mapnik styles to MapCSS?
With best regards,
Alex Zolotarev
Komяpa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Glad to announce the first release of Kothic JS map rendering engine.
>
> There's live demo on
http://kothic.org/js/
Very impressing - looks superb!
> Main features are:
>
> * Pure javascript - no closed-source proprietary components like
> Silverlight or Flash;
>
> * Crossbrowser and cross-platform - works wherever you've got
> JavaScript and Canvas;
>
> * Rendering quality is superb and is on par with server-side
> renderers like Mapnik;
>
> * MapCSS support - reuse your stylesheet in other renderer, like
> Mapnik
> (using komap preprocessor)
Interesting, I didn't know komap before. Currently I'm writing a perl script to translate Mapnik xml to
MapCSS; it's like 50% done.
> , Halcyon or JOSM.
> * BSD license.
>
> GitHub repo:
https://github.com/kothic/kothic-js
(contributions welcome!)
>
> Core contributors:
> Darafei Praliaskouski (me=Komzpa, RDC ScanEx)
> Vladimir Agafonkin (Mourner, CloudMade)
> Maksim Gurtovenko (Miroff)
>
> PS: June 10th, it's my birthday :3
Congrats!
Paul
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