On Monday 21 January 2008 10:42:54 Andy Allan wrote: > I think it's pretty impressive that for a multi-day KDE event, all > about their new 4.0 release, that we get practically 5 entire minutes > of their main keynote speech turned over to the promotion of OSM, > instead of promotion of KDE! It's not like we got mentioned in an > incidental speech, or one about Marble specifically. And given that > they develop an office suite, the talk about ODF support was an > illustrative aside during the talk about OSM support!
Well, we're all about freedom, and free mapping data is a new idea to many people. Aaron was clearly amazed by OSM and I guess he just hoped that people listening would be too. > Is anyone here helping the Marble developers with this? It would be > nice to help out if they want custom tilesets or the like, and make > sure that we can crowbar as many OSM-derived maps into the application > as we can get away with. Marble already has the ability to download a set of low quality Mapnik tiles (about z=8 or something I guess). From what I understand there's currently plans to get tile streaming working so that you can go down to almost any zoom level. I'll ask Torsten or Inge what exactly they're planning since I agree that this is an excellent opportunity to show of the amazing work that OSM is doing. Regards, Matt Williams > Cheers, > Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
