[glideplan_swproj] Re: merge

  • From: Mária Vámošová <maria.vamosova@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: glideplan_swproj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:42:07 +0100

Hi!

Thanks for the reply!

2012/3/5 Tomáš Zámečník <pulcik@xxxxxxxx>:
> Hi, there is my reaction. (I tested current master)
>
> Gray tiles:
> Still does not work. Gray tiles appear if I move very close to terrain.

Then it's probably the same problem as when Ales tested it yesterday.
We're going to take a look at it today, and report the progress. I
have my suspicions for couple of things..
But it did work for Kuba under Linux, and it works for me.

>
> Simple maps & satellite maps:
> Nice when displayed in high resolution, ugly in low resolution.
> Included borders are better than the old ones.
> Cache size of these maps is much less than cache size of the satellite maps. 
> It will be good oportunity for packages in future.
> Bug: when I turn off the satellite maps, they are still being downloaded. It 
> may be intersting
> to solve this out to see whether the downloading speeds up, if the satellite 
> maps are not downloaded.
> I mean - when you use simple maps, they should be downloaded much faster, 
> because low-res simple maps
> contain little information.

Yep, I can try that out. But the speed is probably limited by the
server, but we'll see.. I'm looking for another server anyway.

>
> Satellite maps:
> There is following bug: Downloading of satellite maps doesn't start until I 
> switch on/off them in left pane.

Okay, weird, does this happen to anyone else?

>
> Water:
> I think that water is necessary. Bad think is when two neighboring tiles are 
> in different resolution
> and the river, which is shown in the first tile, disappears in the second 
> one. (If the map is downloaded faster this shouldn't be problem)
>
> Height map:
> Is it possible to colorize the simple map according to height? For example 
> add new layer with height,
> which is alpha(gray)-blended with simple map (in left pane would remain just 
> one layer) ?

Yep, that's on the TODO list :)

>
> Lighting:
> It's nicer with lighting.
>
> Default/top map:
> Now there should remains the satellite map. But when the simple map is 
> downloaded faster and contains height it should be map no.1.
>
> Tom
>
>> ------------ Původní zpráva ------------
>> Od: Mária Vámošová <maria.vamosova@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Předmět: [glideplan_swproj] merge
>> Datum: 04.3.2012 20:24:59
>> ----------------------------------------
>> Hi!
>>
>> So I merged my version to master, which means:
>>
>> 1. The grey tiles are fixed - if you still see them, it is possible
>> that you have them in your cache, so try deleting the cache.
>>
>> 2. I found an interesting map source using WMS standard - but it
>> doesn't implement full WMS. I'm currently searching for another WMS
>> server.
>> The map is the "Simple map" layer. You have to disable the "Satellite
>> map", since that one is on top (should I change it, and put this one
>> on top?).
>> It looks nice in my opinion - simple and clear, although the water is
>> a bit unnecessary I think :/
>>
>> 3. I disabled the State borders for now, since I found out there is
>> some problem with the near plane clipping. But the state borders are
>> very nice in the "Simple map" layer.
>>
>> 4. I turned the lighting back on: but you can switch it on/off very
>> simply in initial.earth file.
>>
>> So please try it out someone, and tell me your opinions :) (at least
>> on the simple map layer)
>>
>> Maria
>>
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