[Live-demo] Re: Review of MapTiler Overview docs

klokan at gmail.com klokan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 05:02:48 EDT 2010


Cameron,

the corrections are fine, thanks you. There is a typo in "powerfuil",
otherwise it is completely OK.

Best regards,

Klokan

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com> wrote:
> Klokan,
> Thanks for your docs for MapTiler.
> I've reviewed and included my comments in the text below. (They were fairly
> minor, adjusting a couple of words here and there).
> Can you please review, (especially the first line) and confirm that I
> haven't incorrectly changed the meaning anywhere.
>
> MapTiler¶
>
> Map Publishing¶
>
> MapTiler is a desktop application for the creation of map tiles for rapid
> raster map publishing. Geodata is transformed to tiles compatible with
> Google Maps and Earth - ready for publishing via direct upload to any
> webserver or a cloud storage (such as Amazon S3).
>
> No extensive configuration on the server side is necessary, any simple file
> hosting is fine. Dynamic interaction such as panning and zooming, overlay of
> markers and vector data is provided by powerfuil browser functionality.
>
> The application directly generates a ready to use simple viewer based on
> OpenLayers and Google Maps API and can be easily customized.
>
> MapTiler is a multi-platform desktop application. Installers are available
> for Windows, Mac OS X and packages for linux (Debian/Ubuntu).
>
> Core Features¶
>
> Well known Javascript APIs supported: OpenLayers, Google Maps API
> No extra server software installation necessary
> Hosting almost everywhere: cloud storage such as Amazon S3 or any cheap
> “unlimited” webhosting with FTP access
> Easy mashup with commercial layers (Google, Bing, Yahoo) or OpenStreetMap
> Tiles follow OSGEO TMS (Tile Map Service Specification)
> Ability to process raster data in various formats: TIFF/GeoTIFF, MrSID, ECW,
> JPEG2000, Erdas HFA, NOAA BSB, JPEG and more...
> Available commercial support and parallelized rendering on multi-core CPUs
> or on Amazon EC2 cluster
>
> Details¶
>
> Website: http://www.maptiler.org/
>
> Licence: New BSD License
>
> Software Version: 1.0beta2
>
> Supported Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac
>
> Community: http://groups.google.com/group/maptiler
>
> Commercial support and applications: http://www.maptiler.com/
>
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