Cool! Did you make up the GSS (geo style sheets) concept yourself, or is that used elsewhere?
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Sean Gillies <[email protected]> wrote: > Jeff, > > What's the motivation for not using SVG-CSS properties like stroke-width, > fill, etc? > > Sean > > On Apr 25, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: > >> Hi all, and thank you for the feedback so far. It is indeed canvas/ >> HTML 5, and I don't anticipate problems with IE. Google's iecanvas.js >> brings canvas to ie6&7, and ie8 has an implementation of canvas, >> though I haven't tested it thoroughly. >> >> The most exciting parts for me are iPhone/android, and in general the >> idea of a full styling/scripting language for maps, that is, GSS. You >> can read a bit more about GSS at cartagen.org. >> >> Best, >> Jeff >> >> On Apr 25, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Frank Hardisty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Jeffrey and All, >>> >>> Cool stuff, Jeffrey, I'll watch your progress with interest, and >>> perhaps try to contribute if you want help and can get it working on >>> more platforms. >>> >>> I would include in your description that it is HTML 5 Canvas-based, if >>> you are trying to attract fellow developers. That's the golden >>> question, how to draw vectors in the browser. Flash is unappealing >>> because it is commercial. Canvas is sadly unsupported in the most >>> common browsers (IE 6,7). The situation with IE 8 and Canvas is not >>> clear to me. >>> >>> How are you planning to implement IE 8 support? >>> >>> regards, >>> -Frank >>> >>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jeffrey Warren <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm working on a Javascript map renderer, non tile-based. It's really >>>> early-stage alpha, and not publicly released yet, but I'd love some >>>> feedback >>>> from folks as I'm continuing to develop it. >>>> http://cartagen.org - hold down 'r' and drag to rotate, scroll >>>> wheel to zoom >>>> (Takes a few seconds to load; i'm using OSM 0.6 api but plan to >>>> move to a >>>> local planet.osm db for speed) >>>> Cartagen downloads point data and draws it using the <canvas> >>>> element in >>>> native HTML 5. This allows for animations, live/changing realtime >>>> data, and >>>> in general a complete scripting environment for displaying maps on >>>> the >>>> client side. >>>> It's not been optimized yet, so loading is a little slow, but I'm >>>> optimistic >>>> that it will scale. Right now, though, I'd like to invite comments, >>>> criticisms, etc. and also participants as I'm shortly going to open >>>> source >>>> this project. >>>> Thanks! >>>> Jeffrey Warren >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geowanking mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Frank Hardisty >>> [email protected] >>> >>> GeoVISTA Center >>> 212 Walker Building >>> >>> Dutton e-Education Institute >>> 434 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building >>> >>> 814-867-1471 >>> http://www.geovista.psu.edu/grants/cdcesda/software/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
