Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > this is probably a niche application but I have just played around a > bit with the aim to create large (as in 5000x5000 pixel or bigger) > globe-shaped images with ti...@home tiles. > > On a whole-world level, ti...@home tiles give a better impression of > "where we have something" than the Mapnik ones. But Marble, which > creates nice "globe" pictures, uses Mapnik, so I modified Marble's tile > source and after that tricked Marble into running on a virtual 5000x5000 > desktop so I could grab a nice image off of it. > > Here is an example: > > http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/marble.jpg > > And here is how to do it (needs Linux): > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Frederik_Ramm/Creating_Very_Large_Marble_Images
That's nice! And now 360 pictures, all one degree rotated and a nice java application that you can rotate the globe. Oh, you need images for rotation around the poles too. I guess this is not something that can be rendered realtime? Nothing niche about it. I bet Google has plans for something like this too. Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
