This project really doesn't do anything yet and the notes below can be considered brain-storming.
Rather than a single comprehensive component, Mapbits is a web mapping framework composed of loosely coupled modules to easily integrate or extend as you see fit. This small toolset is designed to be lean, extensible and ready for the upcoming generation of web apps.
Design Principles
- Keep modules focused
- Model driven views & decoupled rendering
- Don't prevent realtime data
- Be efficient - Queue & coalesce property changes
- Point (x, y)
- Coordinate Reference System (CRS)
- Layer
- Projection
This top-level component encapsulates a CRS that layers & features can be added to. The viewport is also responsible for notifying it's dependents of changes that effect the visible scope, such as panning, zooming, resizing.
A tile layer requests images from a provider with consideration to the visible extent of the viewport to which it belongs.
A grid layer is a generic pane/layer that requires realtime knowledge of the visible extent of the viewport to which it belongs. This should be useful for custom visualizations.
- Point
- LineString
- Polygon
- MultiPoint
- MultiLineString
- MultiPolygon
- GeometryCollection
- https://github.com/mapbox/utfgrid-spec
- http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html
- https://github.com/modestmaps/modestmaps-js/wiki/ModestMapsNess
- http://www.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/api/v1.0.2/
- https://github.com/ebryn/backburner.js
- http://jonobr1.github.io/two.js/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_graph
- https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/pixi.js/
- http://www.mapbox.com/wax/
- https://github.com/opensciencemap
- https://github.com/Vizzuality/VECNIK