Re: Possible new (rewritten) map rendering library

[mattias jc bengtsson gmail com]

Hi all!

On Sun, 2019-01-06 at 15:26 +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since quite some time we've been discussing implementing support for
> vector tile support in Maps. Since this is a very large task and our
> current rendering library (libchamplain) is holding us back from
> eventually moving on to GTK+ 4, since it's using the now pretty much
> deprecated Clutter scene graph. So I've been playing with idea of
> trying to take the current libchamplain and try to "de-Clutterify" it
> rebasing those components of similar concepts in the new GSK (GTK+
> Scene Graph Kit). A disclaimer is that I'm not at all sure this will
> be possible/feasable, but the idea would be to make as similar API-
> wise aspossible to be able fit in into Maps with minor changes. This
> would give us a feature-parity with the current situation (still
> using regular bitmap tiles) but could maybe at a later point be
> augmented with vector support.

This sounds like a good idea!

Maybe you should talk to Jiri as well and see if making a new (API
breaking) version of libchamplain makes sense?

Regards,
Mattias