On Wed February 18 2009 1:47:22 am Maarten Deen wrote: > 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.
Erm, I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying here. Marble *already* provides an interactive globe. And it's written in C++/Qt, so, unlike a Java app, it looks native on all platforms. Give it a try: http://edu.kde.org/marble/download.php > Oh, you need images for rotation around the poles too. I guess this is not > something that can be rendered realtime? No, it just fetches tiles from the OSM servers. > Nothing niche about it. I bet Google has plans for something like this too. Google Earth? > > Maarten > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
