Hi Kay,

> Am 02.11.2014 um 19:43 schrieb Oliver Eichler:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > new release!
> 
> gosh, you're fast!

Well doing the database now will take a bit longer. And I have to send in my 
laptop due to BIOS problems. 
That will slow down the development progress. 

But, yes, development is fast as I do not have to reinvent the wheel. It's more 
like restructuring the code in 
an intelligent way.

> - QLGT has the information/configuration window (from the maps tab). My
> map has parts under CC-BY and parts from OSM, so I have to attribute,
> and the way I can do that in QLGT is via this window. In QMS I have
> found no way to display the map's licensing information or attributions.

Right now TMS maps display the copyright notice as tool tip. It can be edited 
in the TMS file. 

For all other maps I haven't spend time to dig out the copyright notices. In 
the WMTS maps the copyright 
notice is often written as comment.  The Garmin maps are flooded with a lot of 
copyright notices. And the 
usual raster maps have no notice at all. It's no fun at all to find a common 
solution for that. But the 
necessary structure is already implemented. If the IMap::copyright string 
carries information it is displayed 
as tool tip. 

> 
> - I miss the detail button under QLGT's main window. I work my map with
> detail set above 0, which seems roughly to be QMS's default. With this
> default, my contour lines (resolution 23/24) disappear too early when
> zooming out.

I hope to get rid of that. Imho that button is only needed for badly scaled 
maps. I really love the Freizeitkarte 
for that reason. It's detail levels match perfectly with global screen scales. 

> 
> - issues with the hill shading:
> 
> The method you use translates the virtual shadows into a gradient from
> white to black. When this is overlayed on the map data, it results in
> pastel colours, since the white parts of the hill shading mix with the
> underlying colours. Wouldn't it be possible to display a gradient from
> transparent to black instead?

I switched algorithm from my own funny algorithm to the one from the school 
books ;) The advantage: You 
see more details and there is also shading on the sunny side of the hills. But 
as you say it manipulates the 
colors. If I play with the two sliders (transparency and amplification) I 
always get quite agreeable results. 

The shading is done in IDem::hillshading(...). Maybe you can improve the last 
line "img.setPixel(n - 1, m - 1, 
cang);"

> 
> I also noticed that the hill shading extends beyond the boundaries of
> the terrain that is covered by the DEM, tinting it a uniform middle
> grey, as if it were a flat surface. This creates a pastel effect on
> areas which aren't covered by the DEM.

No it does not. Your DEM file extends beyond the boundaries with NULL data. We 
are talking about SRTM 
Alps from Viewfinder Panorama, don't we?

> 
> Working with several DEMs active at the same time, the hill shadings
> generated from the DEMs add up, which is, in my opinion, wrong. I don't
> know what a wise course would be to deal with overlapping DEMs - ideally
> there would be a choice, like to either give preference to the highest
> resolution DEM, or to calculate an average, or to manually set a
> preference, i.e. by layering.

I am aware of that, but have no good solution. I handle that by switching hill 
shading in the different files. 
Another way is to use DEM data for a large area. But the only source I know are 
the ASTER GDEM files and 
I have better data than that for some areas.


Oliver
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