Serious Geospatial Apps using WhirlyGlobe-Maply
- 1. Serious Geospatial Apps using WhirlyGlobe-Maply Steve Gifford mousebird consulting inc
- 2. Overview Introduction WhirlyGlobe-Maply Toolkit Pretty demos Getting Started Roadmap Conclusion
- 3. WhirlyGlobe-Maply An open source, mobile first geospatial display toolkit. Apache 2.0 License OpenGL ES 3.0 Fast: 60, 30fps Globe & Map iOS Android
- 4. WhirlyGlobe-Maply Timeline Date Version Major Features Feb 2011 0.0 -- Jun 2011 1.0 Single Res Globe, Vectors, Labels Aug 2011 1.1 Selection, Binary Distro Jan 2012 1.2 Markers, Lofted Polys Sep 2012 2.0 Overlays, Vector Styles, Multi Res Globe 2D Labels and Markers, Maply Apr 2013 2.1 Shapes, Text Layout OpenGL ES 2.0, Component Distro Oct 2013 2.2 Performance, Shaders, Elevation Maply Features Mar 2014 2.3 Animation, Tiled Vector Maps, 2D Map Features, Android Oct 2015 2.4 Atmosphere, Night/Day shading, Particles, Stars Sun & Moon, Cesium Elevation, 3D models, Shader Motion
- 11. Developing Your own Apps Mobile web vs. Native iOS Development tools iOS Tutorials Image Layer Example WhirlyGlobe-Maply Tutorials
- 12. Native Dev for Mobile Pros Apps more interactive Better integrated into system Cons Development tools unfamiliar One version of app per platform
- 13. Web Geospatial for Mobile You can, but keep it simple Not as interactive Not very well integrated Example Google Maps for Web (vs) Google Maps App
- 15. iOS Tutorials Apple’s Own Tutorials developer.apple.com Apple’s Xcode Templates Ray Wenderlich’s site www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials Many others (search: ‘iOS tutorial’)
- 17. Image Layers
- 19. Flat Map
- 23. Roadmap Optimization for image layers Vector Map Tiles - More style support More advanced cartography Clustering & Particles & LIDAR Display Android - Lots more features Feature testing framework
- 25. Particle Systems
- 26. LIDAR Display
- 27. Summary WhirlyGlobe-Maply Watched Pretty demos Discussed Geospatial on web vs native Talked about development Go write some apps!
- 28. Links & Contacts Contact sjg@mousebirdconsulting.com @mousebirdc mousebirdconsulting.com Slides {will tweet} WhirlyGlobe-Maply mousebird.github.io/WhirlyGlobe