[Marble-devel] GSoC 2012 Marble Ideas

[Rahul Sharma]

Hi Torsten,

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Rahul Sharma <rahulveera2009 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> So, the .osm tiles might be of arbitrary location irrelevant to what user
would
like to see ( usually, preferred locations may be country, city, etc.
depending
upon user) or is there any specifications ?


> 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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