http://igorbrejc.net Just another developer's weblog Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:32:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATE: A bug has already been discovered thanks to StefanB... a new download link for the fixed version. There were some comments from this blog's readers about me not delivering new Kosmos versions as promised :). So I decided to wrap up everything and produce a new version as soon as ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-23-now-with-integrated-slippymap This weekend I was playing around with Kosmos by trying to load large maps (by "large" I mean country-size large). I have never really done this before, since I was more concentrated on smaller areas when I developed the software. The initial results weren't really encouraging - Kosmos ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-and-large-maps I'll be upgrading my blog to the latest WordPress version this weekend, so there will probably be some glitches (the download site should work though). Sorry for any inconvenience. UPDATE: the migration was easier than I expected - hopefully no hidden problems will appear later. If you encounter anything strange, please ... http://igorbrejc.net/uncategorized/web-site-maintenance Yes, Kosmos has reached a new version (download the latest package from here). It contains some cool new features, but I have spent most of the work on improving the user experience. But let's start with new features: Mobile GMaps support I've already blogged about this. In short, you can now use ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-22   The work on the new version of Kosmos is in full speed. I planned to release it in August, but I had too little spare time for it - most of my weekends were spent hiking and mapping and was also pretty busy on my "real" work. Anyway, I updated ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-news I decided to take my time and study the literature on 3D rendering, especially on maths (vertices, matrices, transformations...), which I forgot all about since my student days. I can highly recommend the 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development book which (contrary to many math books for developers) ... http://igorbrejc.net/uncategorized/status-update-on-kosmos I uploaded some new screenshots of WorldFlier to flickr.com, this time of Mount Etna. The work on WorldFlier is progressing, but there are still a lot of things to fix - relief still doesn't exactly match the contours (well it is a prototype after all).   ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-worldflier-new-screenshots Kosmos is today featured on the German IT-news portal golem.de. The article presents the Kosmos application and also features screenshots and a video I recorded few days ago of the upcoming WorldFlier 3D rendering addition to the Kosmos. This is the second article about Kosmos on golem.de. The first ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-featured-on-golemde I uploaded a short video of the OSM 3D rendering in action: Now I go to bed :) http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-3d-short-video New version of Kosmos is here. Since I've neglected the rendering engine during the implementation of 2.0 release, I decided to do most of the work for this release on improving the rendering. You can download the 2.1 version from the standard place: http://downloads.igorbrejc.net/osm/kosmos/ UPDATE (July 19th): I discovered a small bug ... http://igorbrejc.net/openstreetmap/kosmos-21