Hi Francisco, First the quick answer: no, Kosmos is not using SharpMap. I knew about SharpMap for some time, but when I started Kosmos is was just an experiment on implementing a simple tile server for OSM. Most of the work was on defining and implementing a rule engine and processing OSM data with it. The drawing part was (at first) simple, it grew in size simply because I added more and more optimizations to draw maps more quickly.
SharpMap offers a large set of features valuable for GIS development, but Kosmos is still more or less an OSM-oriented tool, so the code is OSM data structure-oriented and I'll keep it that way for now. But what I am looking for is .NET libraries for stuff that I really don't want to handle myself: image georeferencing (GeoTIFFs for example), rectification - I'm not sure if SharpMap does this? It would be interesting to see the performance of SharpMap-developed tool for OSM rendering. Unfortunately I don't have enough time to work on OSM - SharpMap integration (maybe your friend does? :) ). I can help with the code and any questions. Igor Francisco R. Santos wrote: > Hi Igor, > > A friend of mine has a pet project in C#, with some contour and relief > renderings (no roads, terrain only), so I thought of showing him > Kosmos. Then he saw the code and asked me if it uses SharpMap[1]. As I > don't program in C#, I didn't know what he was talking about, so he > showed me this library that handles many GIS formats and draws maps in > many ways [2]. > > So, the question is, can SharpMap be useful to Kosmos?. I think that > if you use this library, you can spare many, many lines of drawing > code and concentrate in the OSM parts. If not, as you already have the > code to import a .osm file, a OSM importer for this library could be > very useful to other people using it. > > Regards, > Quico > > [1] http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap > [2] > http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home > > <http://www.codeplex.com/SharpMap/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Screenshots&referringTitle=Home> -- http://igorbrejc.net _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
