> You do not have to credit me on the two new files, they are yours. :-)
Yeah, I just copy and paste files and don't give much thought to copyright
notices :)
I wasn't aware of the maps.xml file, but it is truly awesome, especially
given how so many services use that same mercator
OSM/slippymap/whatever-it's-called scheme. And great that users of today's
versions of viking can use CalTopo just by editing that.
> In one hand, it seems to be a usefull freely
> available map. In the other hand, this is USA only related. Perhaps
> the hability to configure it is enough?
I strongly advocate built-in support for topos, even if they are USA-only.
Sure, I live in the USA, but hear me out: my main use of Viking is with
topos, and I suspect there are many others who are the same way (for
instance, a long long time ago, Reid Priedhorsky made some topo maps for an
Escalante hiking trip with Viking). There is a big market for making your
own custom topos: National Geographic TOPO (
http://www.natgeomaps.com/topo_state.html ) sells for a ridiculous amount
of money (like $50 for each state!), and there is also TopoFusion. And we
can compete here. If Viking (as installed by 'apt-get install viking' in
Ubuntu) comes shipped with support to make your own topo maps, I think it
would increase the visibility and really show people what Viking can do.
(I'm assuming the debian package is compiled with the default options). I
don't think the one extra item in the menu that users from other countries
may never use hurts much. If there were a really good Topo map source for
only France or New Zealand or something, I wouldn't object to having it
built-in, in fact I might be curious to see what the maps look like... and
there are already tons of map sources compiled in that I don't use...
Anyway, it does seem strange to me that I would have to add new code to get
CalTopo in; I guess there's no global "maps.xml" file?
Evan
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Guilhem Bonnefille <
guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Evan,
>
> 2012/4/29 Evan Battaglia <gtoe...@gmx.net>:
> > [snip]
> > Anyway, my commit to add support for it is here:
> >
> https://github.com/evanbattaglia/viking/commit/799f073c1ff89f8cd904d39e364fb9d402bce844
> >
> > Tell me if anyone has any comments. I just copied the autotools stuff
> from
> > BlueMarble, man that stuff is crazy :) I'm not sure how we're picking map
> > source IDs these days, I just picked a random number that wasn't being
> used
> > (29). Seems like these ids are kind of all over and hard to see what is
> > being used...
> >
> > I've also attached a patch made with 'git format-patch master'. Or I
> guess I
> > still have permissions to write directly to the SF git repo... haven't
> done
> > it in a few years ...
>
> I did not test your patch, simply read it.
>
> You do not have to credit me on the two new files, they are yours. :-)
>
> You can find a (quite) complete list of maps here:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/viking/index.php?title=Maps
> Can be a good source to check if an internal id is free or not. You
> can also describe your new source as a simple configuration. This can
> allow people to use it even with an older version of viking.
>
> About the integration of such map inside the viking code, I do not
> have clear position. In one hand, it seems to be a usefull freely
> available map. In the other hand, this is USA only related. Perhaps
> the hability to configure it is enough?
>
> Any opinion? How to decide wether a map as to be a built-in and when a
> simple configuration is enough?
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Guilhem BONNEFILLE
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