Hey- Klokan Petr Přidal wrote: > To try it you need any web browser which supports HTML5, it means the > latest version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera. > > Have a look at the demo: > http://examples.maptiler.org/map-reprojection-html5-canvas/ >
That is cool! > It is just a prove of concept in this moment, but I am sure practical > applications will follow. > > The most typical use could be the client-side warping of raster data > (weather forecast, ..) into the correct image overlay of Google Maps > and similar online maps. > Any WMS sever providing only EPSG:4326 can now correctly overlay > Google Maps, if somebody use this technique to prepare the mash-up. Of > course the speed can be an issue in this moment, but there is plenty > of space for improvement in the warping code, and it can be done in a > separate computing thread, which is possible with HTML5 Web Workers... > > Best, > > Klokan Petr Pridal -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
