Asking a question about marble maps

[Dennis Nienhüser]

Hi all,

here's another quick update on the state of vector tiles:
- we are able to generate vector tiles from country size input files 
now. Germany for example is processed in less than 24 hours.
- country borders are handled properly now
- there are a bunch of speed and style improvements at various places

However we don't reach the desired frame rate (always at least roughly 
10 fps on modern hardware) on Android yet. Therefore I moved the release 
date of Marble Maps again, see [0]. Feel free to help out, many tasks 
are described in our board [1] already. Ping me (Earthwings) or Torsten 
(tackat) in #marble in Freenode for details. Thanks for your patience 
:-)

Regards,
Dennis

[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/38/

Am 26.09.2016 22:36, schrieb Dennis Nienhüser:
> Hi all,
> 
> we made some good progress with vector tiles in the last weeks/months:
> - tile levels 0-9 are basically done now from natural earth data and
> Marble tools.
> - the remaining tile levels 11-17 can be created with Marble tools now
> as well. We need some development still to be able to deal with
> country size input files. My plan here is to pre-tile them to level ~9
> using osmconvert and then feed to Marble tools. Similarly we need some
> development to merge country borders. Both is relatively
> straightforward to implement.
> - we can mix file system and MBtile storage on the server now, which
> is needed to store large amounts of tiles.
> - we now have two nice servers (a fast one to generate tiles, a second
> one with lots of space to host them)
> - speed and styling tweaks are still needed
> 
> Given that we didn't finish a substantial portion of vector tile data
> yet to cover most of the world, I just postponed the release by some
> weeks [0]. I hope to find some more time to work on things in the next
> weeks. Any help is welcome of course, as usual #marble in Freenode is
> the place to discuss things.
> 
> Regards,
> Dennis
> 
> [0] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/MarbleMaps1.0
> 
> Am 11.09.2016 23:18, schrieb Sanjiban Bairagya:
>> Hi Abbas,
>> 
>> The first official release of Marble Maps will be available from the
>> Google Play Store on September 25th of this year itself.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>  Sanjiban
>> 
>> On Sep 12, 2016 12:44 AM, "abbas attar" <abbasattar1975 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello!
>>> I read something interesting about marble maps which is based on
>>> osm. I like the navigation application which is based on osm since I
>>> am an osm editor and I can see the results of my editing. Now the
>>> question is this: when will it be released?
>>> Best regards