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

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Komяpa <me at komzpa.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Glad to announce the first release of Kothic JS map rendering engine.

Incidentally, what are the goals for this cool technology? One thought
occurs that it could be integrated with other rendering platforms to
do on-demand rendering where the "real" tiles aren't yet rendered. But
for that to be useful, you'd probably need a server side renderer that
produced passably similar tiles...

I guess another huge benefit is allowing user customisation. Maybe
some site would serve up pre-rendered base tiles, with customised
Kothic JC tiles over the top.

The question also arises: how does Kothic JS relate to Halcyon? Both
are ECMAscript-based, MapCSS-compliant OSM renderers. I suppose Kothic
renders to tiles whereas Halcyon renders to native Flex sprites.

(Apologies for thinking out loud here...)

Steve