Re: [Rails-devel] Tile Database API & route calculation

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

Erik Vos wrote:

>How would you then distinguish the tracks and cities of a tile on one hex
>from those on another similar tile placed on a different hex?
>I suppose I'm missing some point here.
>  
>
You ask the map what tile is placed on hex A17 (or whatever), and it 
gives you a pointer ot the Tile object along with the orientation it was 
placed at.  The fact that it also returns the same Tile object for a 
different hex (or even from the TileManifest object) is irrelevant since 
it doesn't store any context.

When you are building the connectivity graph, you would obviously take 
into account the location where the tile is placed -- the tile object 
simple gives connectivity within that hex and to the hex edges.

I realize that the current design has a UI-specific things tied to the 
tile object, but I would like to keep the Java port of the tile 
rendering code and eventually route-calculation useable separate from 
Rails, which means not tying it to any particular UI code.

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