<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 22 Jul 2015, at 14:52, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" class="">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Il 22/07/2015 11:48, Julien Michel ha scritto:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Qgis developers,<br class=""><br class="">I wrote a small library called Ice which is able to render raster (and<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hi all,<br class="">I have seen ti in action during the recent FOSS4G, and I have been<br class="">really impressed by its speed and capabilities. I think it would be a<br class="">grat addition to QGIS, as either a main or alternative renderer.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As nice as the idea is, I think it will be quite a massive undertaking and we would break all the beautiful (ok and ugly) cartography that people have come up with using the rich array of rendering styles that QGIS currently has. I would also like to see a native OpenGL renderer one day so that we can start to thing about native 3D support. Maybe it would be nice to make a patch that lets you swap between Qt rendering backend and Ice, but honestly its probably a lot of work and may just fade away like the old mapnick renderer did…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">All the best.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" class="">www.faunalia.eu</a><br class="">QGIS & PostGIS courses: <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html" class="">http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html</a><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-developer mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span>—</span><br class=""><span><br class=""></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span><img height="66" width="160" apple-inline="yes" id="3CABBD9A-0665-409C-A129-DEF4D232F5CC" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:62C890D4-3964-4609-BDE6-7536D5FBDD70" class=""></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class="">Tim Sutton</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Visit <a href="http://kartoza.com" class="">http://kartoza.com</a> to find out about open source:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Desktop GIS programming services</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Geospatial web development</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* GIS Training</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">* Consulting Services</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial</div></div></div></div>
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