[Mapcss] Kothic JS - a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas

Peter Wendorff wendorff at uni-paderborn.de
Sat Jun 11 10:06:25 BST 2011


Great work!
That's awesome - but...
I tried it with a intel core 2 duo and with an Atom netbook, and at the 
netbook the performance, of courses decreases; nearly unuseable there.

Nevertheless a great piece of software.

regards
Peter

Am 11.06.2011 00:02, schrieb Komяpa:
> Hi all,
>
> Glad to announce the first release of Kothic JS map rendering engine.
>
> There's live demo on http://kothic.org/js/
>
> 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), 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
>




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