Hi maybe it is also worth to have a look to (local) capabilities of - mapnik2 - kde marble
Cheers, Yves Am 31.10.11 06:35, schrieb Alex Perry: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Martin Spott<martin.sp...@mgras.net> wrote: >> Alex Perry wrote: >>> [...] What is >>> preventing us from converting the whole Atlas project to WMS, and >>> dropping the old nomenclature? >> >> I'm just guessing: Backwards compatibility with those users who'd like >> to use Atlas without being required to have a functional internet >> uplink ? The FSweekend show next month is typically one of those cases >> where this schema applies. > > I don't know what you're getting at. If Atlas knows how to get map > tiles from a URL family in addition to the usual disk file name > family, that doesn't affect offline use. Having said that, I wouldn't > object to Atlas becoming a URL-only utility providing it still knows > about file:// to avoid depending on a local webserver! If you're > suggesting that the revised Map couldn't write to files any more, I > think you're assuming a larger change to it than I had in mind. > > It might be nice to have a third utility AtlasTileServer which does > provide a caching WMS webserver for Atlas and knows how to invoke Map > to draw missing tiles at need. It could (1) keep a local Map instance > busy between interactive requests, (2) recurse to a remote > AtlasTileServer with its correspondingly better cache and higher > throughput, and (3) kick TerraSync into fetching any missing Terrain > tiles first. Ideally, Atlas and AtlasTileServer are happy keeping the > GET request alive (and idle) while a tile is generated on the fly, and > Atlas knows how to add the late-arriving tile into the framebuffer > once it actually turns up. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook > in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps > for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple > it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
