[OSM-talk] OSM support in KDE's Marble

[Lauri Hahne]

2008/5/21 Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu>:

> In message <200805211633.43509.lists at milliams.com>
>         Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:18:15 Tom Hughes wrote:
> >
> >> It is nice. Unfortunately the need to warp the tiles onto the globe
> >> means that there is a significant reduction in quality over the web
> >> based version.
> >
> > Under the Map View tab, there's a 'Projection' dropdown box. In there you
> can
> > select 'Mercator' or 'Flat Map' projections.
>
> Doesn't seem to make any difference - it is still doing some warping
> of the tiles by the looks of it.
>
> The bit at the bottom of the blog post about work being done on using
> vector data to resolve that has been pointed out to me now anyway. I just
> hope they're not going to try and pull data from the API for that...
>

Yep. The api is slow already and I'm quite confident it can't handle tens or
hundreds of instances of Marble polling it constantly.


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Lauri Hahne
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