[Marble-devel] GSoC 2012 Marble Ideas

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi Rahul,

Yes, the .osm files would serve as tiles. That is exactly one of the major 
parts of the project: Getting a "server prototype" running. Creating some
.osm tiles ready for use and having the client load the tiles automatically.

Of course there is more to it: Performance improvements and rendering 
improvements. Have a look at the ideas page for details.

You would basically build on top of the excellent work that Konstantin did 
last year. Did you have a look at the work he did and did you have a look at 
the youtube video that demonstrates the .osm vector rendering support for 
single files?

BR,

Torsten

On Dienstag, 20. März 2012 10:03:31 Rahul Sharma wrote:
> Hi Torsten,
> I understood now how marble has to do display the openstreetmap. But now I
> wanted to ask that does the project want to say that now instead of the
> jpeg or png files, would .osm files serve as tiles (in a way).
> 
> Please answer this question.
> 
> -Regards
>  Rahul Sharma
>  (NUM_1 on irc.freenode.net)
> 
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Rahul Sharma 
<rahulveera2009 at gmail.com>wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Rahul Sharma <rahulveera2009 at gmail.com>
> > 
> >  Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM
> > 
> > Subject: Re: GSoC 2012 Marble Ideas
> > To: Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de>
> > 
> > 
> > I could not get you on "OSM import code". I have looked into the render
> > and runner codes of OSM by the way.
> > Could you make yourself more clear on that?
> > 
> > -Regards
> > 
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Rahul Sharma 
<rahulveera2009 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >> Hi Torsten,
> >> I wanted to ask that when we click the menus other than "openstreetmap"
> >> in the left panel. It shows only the outline of the world map.
> >> So, does the project want to be developed a way such that when user
> >> clicks the "openstreetmap" menu, the openstreetmap automatically opens a
> >> region of interest (as it is mentioned a city/country/etc) just as when
> >> you click other maps such as, "atlas", "earth at night", etc. it opens
> >> the map for you. But for the openstreetmap, the user has to have a .osm
> >> file.
> >> 
> >> -Regards
> >> 
> >>  Rahul Sharma
> >>  (NUM_1 on irc.freenode.net)
> >> 
> >> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:
> >>> Hello and Welcome :-)
> >>> 
> >>> On Samstag, 17. März 2012 05:21:51 you wrote:
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> > I am an undergraduate student at the Indian Institute of Technology
> >>> > Kharagpur. I want to apply for GSoC 2012. I saw this idea on the Kde
> >>> 
> >>> page
> >>> 
> >>> > of GSoC 2012
> >>> > ideas:<
> >>> 
> >>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_OpenStreetMap_vec
> >>> 
> >>> > tor_rendering_with_tiling_support_.28draft.29> Project: OpenStreetMap
> >>> > vector rendering with tiling support
> >>> > (draft)<
> >>> 
> >>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_OpenStreetMap_vec
> >>> 
> >>> > tor_rendering_with_tiling_support_.28draft.29> And I am interested to
> >>> 
> >>> apply
> >>> 
> >>> > this in marble. I want to discuss the idea and have a better
> >>> 
> >>> understanding
> >>> 
> >>> > of this project. It interests me
> >>> > because I have a little bit of  acquaintance with the openstreetmap
> >>> > api (and also about tile generating and rrvector rendering).
> >>> > I have KDE platform built in my system and also compiled Marble. I
> >>> > have been looking at the source code of Marble
> >>> > for the past 2 weeks. I am particularly interested in KDE-EDU
> >>> > project.
> >>> 
> >>> I
> >>> 
> >>> > have also worked on a bug of kmplot.
> >>> 
> >>> Sounds good. Did you look into the existing OSM import code in Marble
> >>> yet?
> >>> 
> >>> > So, please let me know more about this project.
> >>> 
> >>> Well the link that you mentioned has all the basic information already.
> >>> What
> >>> do you want to know? :-) Any specific questions?
> >>> 
> >>> Best Regards,
> >>> Torsten
> >>> 
> >>> > -Regards,
> >>> > 
> >>> >  Rahul Sharma
> >>> >  NUM_1(on irc.freenode.net)