I posted[1] here a while back about a virtual globe library that I was working on as part of another program called AWeather. Since then I decided to split it into a separate project, now called libgis. With some additional work and a nice front-end, I think this might be useful as the core of a Gnome replacement for Google Earth. http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/Libgis As a follow up to the previous post, I talked with some of the developers working on libchamplain and we decided that libgis and libchamplain were addressing different issues. Libchamplain is more for 2D maps, while libgis is geared towards a 3D globe. There are some initial API docs[2] available for anyone who is interested in trying it, although the gis-demo and gis-test example programs included in the source code might be more useful as a starting point. http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/libgis/api/ The current version, 0.4.1, depends on libsoup and gtkglext and should compile pretty easily on most distros. There's also a gentoo ebuild in the sunrise overlay, ubuntu packages, and a Win32 installer for AWeather (which bundles libgis). See the AWeather install page for details: http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/wiki/AWeather/Install [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2009-September/msg00050.html _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
