Interesting project from Oregon. I remember Weave users talking about that kind of functionality. How feasible would a Weave implementation be?

Scale-adaptive Projection
http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/temp/AdaptiveProjection/

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that's neat with vector data, but I don't think it scales well with tiles
:-)
interesting idea, though...

hmmm, I suppose if you had a cache of background tiles (like OSM) in each
of those projections it could work, the cartography when zoomed out gets a
little easier...

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Spanring, Christian <CSpanr...@mapc.org>wrote:

I think it's doable (in a few years when we've finished al the high priority items).

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On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Spanring, Christian wrote:

If there's a library or an algorithm available, we could use it or port it,
but considering that the shapefile is simplified greatly, the performance
of that demo is very poor.

Andy

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Spanring, Christian <CSpanr...@mapc.org>wrote:

In the future, everything will be vector. Apparently the Google team demoed 6 million vertices rendered in the browser through their HTML5/WebGL implementation last week at Strata:

http://mano-demos.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/slides/strata2012/index.ht...

Christian

On Mar 7, 2012, at 6:07 PM, David Percy wrote:

that's neat with vector data, but I don't think it scales well with tiles :-)
interesting idea, though...

hmmm, I suppose if you had a cache of background tiles (like OSM) in each of those projections it could work, the cartography when zoomed out gets a little easier...

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Spanring, Christian <CSpanr...@mapc.org<mailto:CSpanr...@mapc.org>> wrote:
Interesting project from Oregon. I remember Weave users talking about that kind of functionality. How feasible would a Weave implementation be?

Scale-adaptive Projection
http://cartography.oregonstate.edu/temp/AdaptiveProjection/

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Image tiles could actually perform better, because there would be less
coordinates to project.  If the tiles are small enough, you can get a
decent looking map using a 4x4 grid of points for each tile (to generate
the triangles on which the tile will be rendered).