Re: [Viking-devel] Map Download

[Dan B. <da...@pe...>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:56:11PM +0200, gt...@gm... wrote:
> > 2) Is there anyway to get the maps to download automagically (ala
> >    topofusion) when you enter (or scroll/zoom to) a new area?
> No, not yet, but that's a really good idea, and I'll think about
> implementing it. It should be as simple as triggering a download all
> maps for a certain layer upon redrawing. And making it so the
> 'download all' dialog doesn't cover the screen, and maybe even auto-
> updating when maps get downloaded.

Two things to worry about - if I zoom all the way out, there's more than
200k maps to download.  I wouldn't want that done automatically.  Also,
when you pan around in the map, if it starts downloading some maps, and
you pan a bit further, it needs to know not to re-download the
overlapping maps.

Does that make sense?  I guess ideally, the autodownload would be a
checkbox that would be easy to turn on/off, like a layer, and it would
be both interruptable (if it tried to download too much, perhaps), and
non-blocking (unlike viewing with maps turned on).

Thanks again for a really cool program!

Dan

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Dan Boger
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