[OSM-talk] OSM gets mentioned in KDE4 keynote speech at Google Headquarters
Artem Pavlenko
artem.mapnik at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 23 14:53:31 GMT 2008
On 23 Jan 2008, at 14:35, Torsten Rahn wrote:
>> This looks excellent. I see that there are some minor faults on
>> the fonts.
>> But for a "quick viewer" that Marble is and for the given
>> projection it's a
>> pretty good result already.
>> That being said we plan to have different quality settings in
>> Marble 0.6 in
>> general:
>
> Ah, just comparing it against the screenshot in your presentation:
>
> http://www.port.ac.uk/special/soc/programme/presentations/
> filetodownload,70851,en.pdf
>
> I only now realized that you looked at this in "flat map"
> projection. Of
> course if you look at it in spherical projection the fonts will get
> squeezed.
> as you basically render "unprojected fonts" against an equirectangular
> projection.
>
> Is there any chance that you could show how this looks in spherical
> projection
> (maybe with fonts adjusted to equirectangular projection, so there
> will be
> minimal distortion in spherical projection)?
I will do later on tonight. Or you can use my data to test it
yourself. Some zoom levels look ugly due to my database experiments:)
simplifying geometry, but should be good enough for testing.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Torsten
Artem
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