New features in WhirlyGlobe-Maply Version 2.4 and Beyond!
- 1. New Features in WhirlyGlobe-Maply Version 2.4 & Beyond! Steve Gifford mousebird consulting inc
- 2. Overview Introduction History & people Interesting Features Boring Features Future Directions Wrap-up
- 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
- 5. 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 Feb 2016 2.4 Atmosphere, Night/Day shading, Particles, Stars Sun & Moon, Cesium Elevation, 3D models, Shader Motion Summer 2016 2.5 Swift, Android, Point Clouds, 3D Models, Terrain, Vector Tiles, Custom Projections, Automated Testing
- 6. WhirlyGlobe-Maply Size Module Number of Lines Core Library 55,389 iOS Interface 46,378 Android Interface 32,489 Total 134,256
- 7. Who’s Working on it José Navarro Ranen Ghosh Hiring soon(ish)?
- 8. mousebird consulting inc Consulting OEM Deals Support Contract iOS & Android Questions Bug fixes Training
- 9. Feature Breakdown How the feature used to work How it works now Does it work on Android? Where are we going with it?
- 11. And so on….
- 15. Image Basemaps
- 17. Ramp Shader
- 19. Future: Bicubic Interpolation Bilinear Bicubic Images Courtesy of Wikipedia
- 20. Future: Edge Stitching Breaks caused by tiling Fixable with smart tile lookup in shader Devices fast enough now
- 21. 3D Models
- 22. Model Builder & Extruder
- 23. Moving Models
- 25. Future: Model Support glTF Support Khronos Model Interchange Standard Better Shading & Transforms More model builder functionality
- 26. Local Terrain DB sqlite format custom tools Cesium Terrain terrain mesh open source(ish) incomplete Terrain Support
- 28. TMS Style Sources (0,0) Normal Tiling Cesium Terrain Tiling (0,0) (1,0)
- 30. Cesium Terrain Resample/chop images Fix edges between tiles Surface materials (e.g. water) Other sources Mapzen? Future: Terrain Support
- 31. Existing Vector Map Support Labels Markers Lines Areal Features Formats GeoJSON Shapefiles Custom
- 32. Wide Vectors
- 33. Vector Tiles What do we mean? Could be GeoJSON Probably means Mapbox Vector Tiles Data vs. Style Data is in Mapbox Vector Tile Format Style is… elsewhere Supported Styles Mapnik XML Mapbox GL Style Format Roll your own
- 35. Mapbox GL Style Support Parses and builds Missing features Sprite sheets Transitions Shader support Lacking subtlety
- 37. GeoPackage & SLD Support GeoPackage SQLite database Holds geometry & images Allows searching Styled Layer Descriptor Format Vector styling standard Supported by a range of tools
- 38. Android Support Vector Tiles Coming Soon Image & Vector Support GeoPackage Not Yet Styled Layer Descriptor Not Yet
- 39. Web Mercator
- 40. Web Mercator + British National Grid Source
- 41. British National Grid + Web Mercator Source
- 42. British National Grid on Globe
- 43. Android Support
- 44. Future: Projection Support A few bugs to sort out Better Feedback on Proj.4 setup failures Detection of missing grid files
- 46. Sun & Moon
- 51. Screen Object Builder Add objects one at a time Text, Images, Vectors Control as a single object Partly there for Billboards Coming for 2D Objects Custom Text More Text
- 55. Particle Systems
- 57. Point Clouds
- 59. AutoTester
- 61. Future: Build & Testing Continuous Integration On change & nightly builds Binary Distribution Automated Device Testing Tests run on-device Results sent to developers
- 62. Toolkit Architecture WhirlyGlobe Core Lib C++ Objective C Swift OpenGL ES WhirlyGlobe Core Lib C++ OpenGL ES Java iOS Android Java Native Interface
- 63. Porting The Toolkit Mobile Operating Systems iOS & Android (core systems) Windows Phone Desktop Operating Systems Windows (C#) Mac/OS X (Obj-C/Swift) Linux (C++) Web Browser Javascript & WebGL
- 64. Resources Tutorials Reference docs github repo github Issues Active community