On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Martin Spott <[email protected]> wrote: > Geoff McLane wrote: >> As you may know the Atlas project already has >> a GetMap application, linked with CURL to >> to do the http requests... written by Fred back in 2004, > > No, I didn't know. When I talked to Brian Schack about this topic, the > conversation somehow got lost (and I do feel guilty in some way ....). > As far as I can remember the biggest obstacle was set by Atlas's tile > schema being organized alongside FlightGear's Scenery tiling schema, > being slightly different from what WMS tile servers typically provide. > Actually I'm unable to afford the time for providing the introduction > into the logic behind WMS(-C) and related protocols, but there's plenty > to read at OSGeo and related projects (start at TileCache for example). > > BUT I'd be willing to set the tile server up - simply because I'm > convinced that this is "the right thing to do" about serving map > imagery from a server .... well, actually the entire infrastructure is > already in place, because I've been doing this sort of stuff for years, > I'd just have to compile the Atlas imagery into a suitable format.
I looked into doing this a couple of years ago and got bogged down in the FGFS-specific assumptions throughout the Atlas pipeline. I came to the conclusion that the integration I had in mind would be ugly, but wasn't willing to take on the burden of forking. What is preventing us from converting the whole Atlas project to WMS, and dropping the old nomenclature? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
