[OpenLayers-Dev] polyline encoding

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Feb 11 10:20:21 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:40:30AM -0600, Lance Dyas wrote:
> Hmmmm would "patches welcome" have been appropriate on that response? 

Yep.

> or are there objections to the idea, 

Nope.

> actually the encoding itself is
> not where the performance speed occurs its in the precalculated line
> thinning for each zoom level ...

Right. I think that there are probably several ways this could be
implemented, but none of them are trivial; in any case, I think it's a
fine idea, just not one anyone has spent time or effort on, nor am I
aware of anyone who has expressed a lot of interest in it at this point.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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