One of the first screenshots we posted on this blog was that of the Joffre Group, showing a popular range of mountains north of Pemberton, BC. One of the down sides of a development blog is that some screenshots may show features that improve over time. Several changes have been made to map rendering the …
WMS can be a great source for map imagery, but many servers are vastly under powered. Also, most WMS servers render your map request on demand, which can take time and reduce the performance of an application, such as TrueNorth, using them as a data source. TileServers on the other hand can be blazingly fast …
We know that not all maps are terrestrial, and not all users are backcountry users. An obvious extension of TrueNorth is into the aviation industry, and to that end we demonstrate the inclusion of aeronautical charts below. The charts are provided as a Tile Map Service by Chartbundle.com
We came across some artistically rendered map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data by Stamen Designs and decided to showcase them in TrueNorth. Since we can already show OpenStreetMap tiles, it was a simple matter of setting the url appropriately. Map tiles by Stamen Design, under CC BY 3.0. Data by OpenStreetMap, under CC BY SA.