Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> You can also switch projections at high zoom levels.
This certainly needs to be done. World-size projections, at least the
new-fangled ones, are a bad choice for street maps, where the locally
undistorted property of Mercator is ideal.
I also propose we get tileservers t
Hi Torsten,
hi-res relief in marble : http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/
marble-srtm.jpg
Cheers
Artem
On 24 Jan 2008, at 09:54, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 15:53:31 Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> I will do later on tonight. Or you can use my data to test it
>> yourself.
On 23 Jan 2008, at 14:52, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>
>> Here is 'bad' example : http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/
>> marble-osm-bad.jpg - you can not read text at all.
>
> Is that really unprojected
>
It is due to re-sampling. Tiles are projected into Plate Ca
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
Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> Here is 'bad' example : http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/
> marble-osm-bad.jpg - you can not read text at all.
Is that really unprojected
cheers
Richard
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> What do you mean by magic? Just a zoom value where it looks good?
Precisely :)
> How do bad
> and average zoom levels look like? Could you send me a screenshot
> of "bad"
> and "average" (or maybe put the tile data somewhere so I can
> experiment
> somewhat, too) :-) ?
>
Here is 'bad' e
On 23 Jan 2008, at 12:23, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Hi Artem,
>
> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 11:06:41 Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> Hi Torsten,
>> Glad you like the screenshot. I'll post another one soon :)
>> Yes, you're right mercator would be wasteful. When I got spare
>> moment I'll try different t
>
> I guess ideally the size of the tile on the screen would match
> about the size
> of the original tile.
You can also switch projections at high zoom levels.
BTW, is it possible to use png for tiles? Is there magic xml param??
Artem
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On Jan 23, 2008 11:16 AM, Artem Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep, you're right, Mercator is no help.
> BTW, I rendered tiles (for marble) in Lat/Lon aka Geographic, Plate
> Carre, equirectangular,cylindrical equidistant, unprojected etc.
> Still, there are too many re-sampling artifacts.
On 22 Jan 2008, at 22:18, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 9:41 PM, Artem Pavlenko
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I wonder why geographical projection for tiles ? They look quite
>> distorted when warped on sphere:
>> http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/marble-osm.jpg
>> Ma
On Jan 22, 2008 9:41 PM, Artem Pavlenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wonder why geographical projection for tiles ? They look quite
> distorted when warped on sphere:
> http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/marble-osm.jpg
> Maybe spherical Mercator (same as in GMap) would produce better result
On 22 Jan 2008, at 20:55, Matt Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 20:41:33 Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> On 22 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Torsten Rahn wrote:
>>> "File -> Download New Data" (DXS)
>>>
>>> is one of the very few features that only get enabled if you
>>> compile the KDE
>>> version (i
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 20:41:33 Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > "File -> Download New Data" (DXS)
> >
> > is one of the very few features that only get enabled if you
> > compile the KDE
> > version (it's a KDE technology). While the MarbleWidget only
>
On 22 Jan 2008, at 19:50, Matt Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:26:53 Artem Pavlenko
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>>> On Monday 21 January 2008 15:20:41 Andy Allan
>>>
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro
On 22 Jan 2008, at 12:59, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> Seems my mail doesn't get immediately approved on OSM-talk, so
> here's my
> answer in private. In case of reply please CC me, as I'm not
> subsribed to
> OSM-talk.
>
>>> I'm on version 0.5 and I get the data by going to "File -> Download
>>> Ne
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:26 +, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
> I'm on version 0.5 and I get the data by going to "File -> Download
> > New
> > Data..." and installing the Mapnik tiles. They can then be used by
> > chosing "OSM Mapnik" in the "Map View" sidebar.
>
> Hmm... I compiled 0.6 from source
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 11:26:53 Artem Pavlenko
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> > On Monday 21 January 2008 15:20:41 Andy Allan
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Marble already has the ability to download a
Hi Matt,
> On Monday 21 January 2008 15:20:41 Andy Allan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality
>>> Mapnik
>>> tiles (about z=8 or something I guess).
>>
>> Is this j
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:56 +, Matt Williams wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 10:42:54 Andy Allan wrote:
> > I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all
> > about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes
> > of their main keynote speech turned ov
On Monday 21 January 2008 15:20:41 Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik
> > tiles (about z=8 or something I guess).
>
> Is this just on development versio
On Jan 21, 2008 10:56 AM, Matt Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik tiles
> (about z=8 or something I guess).
Is this just on development versions? I'm running Marble 0.4.0 here,
but can't figure out if it can do what you say
On Monday 21 January 2008 10:42:54 Andy Allan wrote:
> I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all
> about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes
> of their main keynote speech turned over to the promotion of OSM,
> instead of promotion of KDE! It's n
I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all
about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes
of their main keynote speech turned over to the promotion of OSM,
instead of promotion of KDE! It's not like we got mentioned in an
incidental speech, or one abou
Aaron Seigo mentioned and did a wonderful bit of advertising for OSM during
his keynote speech for the KDE4 release at the Google headquarters in
Mountainview CA yesterday. The full video can be found at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6642148224800885420 but if you just
want the OSM st
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