[weekly report] local map rendering in libchamplain

[Simon Wenner <simon wenner gmail com>]

Hi

Project: Implement local map rendering of OpenStreetMap data in libchamplain.
Report: Week 1

As mentioned in my application, my holidays start on the 29th of May. So I had lectures and exams in the first week of the GSoC.

My progress so far:
 * I re-evaluated the rendering library. I originally intended to use Mapnik[1], which has the drawback of heavy C++ dependencies. The new selection is Memphis[2], which is based on GLib and Cairo. It is not as feature complete as Mapnik, but it will be the better choice in the long run.
 * Read about the beauty of GObjects.
 * Created a GObject based API for Memphis.
 * Started to restructure Memphis into a library.

The overall status of my project can be tracked here: http://foregroundnoise.wordpress.com/gsoc-2009/

[1] http://mapnik.org/
[2] http://trac.openstreetmap.ch/trac/memphis/

Cheers,
Simon