Posts Tagged ‘library’

Creating Real “Multi”-Layer Maps

Doing another viewer for a 200+ maps project, i discovered that combining overview and detail maps in the same view, rendered the system unusable with only a few layers. Naturally i did some optimizations on the layer drawing code. This resulted in a dramatical performance improvement when combining large overview maps with detail maps in [...]


Serving RDS/TMC info via GeoRSS

As RSS and GeoRSS get more popular every day, here are my 2ct: Once again recycling old code: pulled my RDS/TMC decoder out of the drawer and made a running setup. Then wrote a simple script to generate a GeoRSS feed from it. The hardest part is getting the traffic information formatted right: having a [...]


2-d barcodes

When thinking of a mass-licensing mode for MaSSOnAIR i thought of a barcode (as there are webcam barcode readers for flex). Then i remembered semacode, a way to encode a url in a 2-d barcode. When i did some research on the technique, i found that semacode actually is a Data Matrix implementation Data Matrix [...]


Decoding RDS and TMC

Since the beginning of this year, my partners at vianovis have licensed teleatlas vector-maps and are busy creating pixel-maps for general use; compatible to zoomify and therefore maptech. Now that i have access to real street maps, i opened my drawer and pulled out an old project of mine: decoding RDS (Radio Data System) and [...]