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 BRUTILE: DEVELOPING A C# CLIENT FOR TILE SERVICES

Abstract

_{BruTile is a client library for retrieving and displaying tile services such as TMS, WMS-C, Bing and Google. It runs on several .net platforms: Silverlight 3.0, WPF 35. MS Surface SDK 1.0 SP1, Compact Framework 3.5 and WinForms 3.5.}

 

_{BruTile was initially developed in the context of new user interfaces and touch control which required a responsive and smooth performing UI. All data retrieval is done on a background thread. The UI thread renders tiles that are directly available and does not wait for any new tiles arriving. The UI and fetcher thread communicate through simple notifications.}

 

_{Some challenges during development were:}

_{·          Supporting several different platforms with the same codebase.}

_{·          Tile fetching in the background wile the demand for tiles continuously changes.}

_{·          Supporting different tile services through a common interface.}

 

Authors

Paul Den Dulk - Geodan