[Marble-devel] GSoC 2012 Marble Ideas

[Rahul Sharma]

Yes, I looked the video. That is a great work indeed.

-Regards
 Rahul Sharma

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Torsten Rahn <tackat at t-online.de> wrote:

>
> 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)
>
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