[Marble-devel] [PATCH] LatLonBoxServerLayout

[Jens-Michael Hoffmann]

Hi Bernhard,

Am Samstag, 22. Mai 2010, 17:58:17 schrieb Bernhard Beschow:
> Hi Marble devs,
> 
> it seems like the reviewboard has some trouble with uploading patches, so I just post it here.
> 
> Inspired by tackat's proposal for quick & dirty WMS [1] support, I've created a ServerLayout class which requests tiles based on a latidude/longitude box. Currently, it only supports pairs of EPSG:4326 coordinates (better known as GPS coordinates).
> 
> Since WMS parameters are passed in the query part of an URL, I added a query attribute to the downloadurl-tag. Due to some limitations, its value has to be web-encoded, which is probably a pitfall when creating a dgml file. If you find a better way, please let me know.
> 
> For an example dgml file, see [2]. You should at least zoom to level 5 and you should have Saxony focused. If you zoom in very deep, say 17-20, you will notice artifacts like warped lines etc. which are probably caused by rounding errors. If you know how to avoid them, please let me know as well.
> 
> Have fun!

Looks great.
"Ship it!" (in reviewboard terms) from my side


Kind regards,
Jens-Michael


> 
> Greetings,
> Bernhard
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service
> [2] http://www.gitorious.org/marble-restricted-maps/wms-maps/trees/master
>