[squeak-dev] ANN: TiledMaps library - OpenStreetMaps, Bing Maps, Thunderforest maps and so on

Tony Garnock-Jones tonyg at leastfixedpoint.com
Mon Feb 12 19:53:58 UTC 2018


On 02/12/2018 07:48 PM, John-Reed Maffeo wrote:
> This is quite an interesting application. Great work!

Thanks!

I felt that the use of `LRUCache` with `Promise`s for the background
tile-loading worked out pretty well.

> What does the future hold ?

For this code? It's finished, for now. If I find myself using it much,
I'm sure I'll find things wrong with it that need fixing. (One omission
is an API for gaining access to attribution/credit information that goes
along with the tiles. At present it's *just* enough plumbing to get the
tiles out to the screen.) (Another omission is scroll-wheel support on
TiledMapMorph.) (A third is being able to show all results to a search,
not just the first/best one.)

For me? I'm working on programming-language designs incorporating ideas
from the Actor model and from tuplespaces. :-)

Cheers,
  Tony


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