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Glad to hear it !

Master updated : https://github.com/djes/PBMap/

New version here to test : https://github.com/djes/PBMap/tree/djes

-> better cache mechanism with thread limiting, and thread overload fixed.

Thanks for the updates.

New master with full cache rewrite, and new functions from yves86 allowing track modification in the future.
https://github.com/djes/PBMap

Thank you for the update

I've successfully included it in my project.
I'm just wondering.... does have the download/display speed of the map (when moving around, zooming, etc.) has been decreased because of new functions?

Andre wrote:Thank you for the update

I've successfully included it in my project.
I'm just wondering.... does have the download/display speed of the map (when moving around, zooming, etc.) has been decreased because of new functions?

Thank you for your test.

Yes, the display is not slower, but download could be, for two reasons : first, OSM seems to have reinforced rules control, with slower bandwidth (that I've experienced), so, second, I decided to better follow the Tile Usage Policy, reducing to 2 the maximum simultaneous download slots. You can change this behavior, but be warned that it could lead to some disagreement.

I'm thinking to make this program an official implementation, maybe making a DLL...

Thank you, djes, for this clarification!

Yes, it really seems to be the bandwidth issue, especially when I'm using a very high detail level (16-18). But this is needed for placing my GeoWorld multimedia objects to the right place on the map...

If you plan to make a DLL will it be closed source then?
Will you also support other OS than Windows then? (currently I could use the include also for the MacOS version of my editor tool)

No, it'll always be open source, with provided binary version, to enlarge audience.

djes wrote:No, it'll always be open source, with provided binary version, to enlarge audience.

Nice, thank you.

I hope, that PBMap will get more / its deserved attention by this change/addition!

Would it be possible to when you have multible layers turned on to make particular colors of other layers transparent?

Example: like the greyish area in the OSM tiles to be transparent so that other tiles show through more clear?

Thanks

I'll study that.

The "easy" way I see is to use 2D drawing lib's CustomFilterCallback(@CallbackFiltre()) function, and instead of drawing with DrawVectorImage() , using DrawImage(). It should be really slow however if done in realtime (line 1408 of pbmap.pb). A better solution would be to convert PNG file when downloaded, creating a definitive transparent one. Then, the drawing could occur at normal speed. It shouldn't be too difficult to implement (after line 2542 of pbmap.pb, called when the download thread is finished).

Finally, the best solution would be to use a custom tile server, creating good transparent tiles from vector data. It's a bit expensive BTW.

So your saying download the tile then run a transparency filter on the downloaded file then load it to the canvas?

vwidmer wrote:So your saying download the tile then run a transparency filter on the downloaded file then load it to the canvas?

Mostly, download the tile, do the transparency filter on it, replace the tile file. That's all.