[HN Gopher] Mapr: Native cross platform maps in Rust using WebGPU ___________________________________________________________________ Mapr: Native cross platform maps in Rust using WebGPU Author : adamnemecek Score : 76 points Date : 2022-04-19 17:24 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | rektide wrote: | > _mapr is a portable and performant vector maps renderer. We aim | to support the web, mobile and desktop applications. This is | achieved by the novel WebGPU specification._ | | badass, perfect. get that hardware cranking! another very | excellent use for wgpu! | maxammann wrote: | wgpu felt right for the project from the first minute. Let's | just hope that the WebGPU succeed. But even if it does not, | wgpu is still a great HAL | adamnemecek wrote: | The step up from OpenGL is astounding and overdue. Vulkan is | ok but also too much. | meetups323 wrote: | The `Example` link's href seems to be `https://`. | ushakov wrote: | i love that you're using Rust and supporting different platforms! | | Mapr seems to be really great if you want to use the same | framework for each platform you're building for | qchris wrote: | Wow, I'm really excited for this! I'm actually currently | rendering a MapLibre-based web map of some drone orthomosaics | I've built on my personal site[1], which is using Rust on the | backend to dynamically assemble the Javascript code running on | the page for each new dataset. | | It's not the prettiest, and writing the initial Javascript code | is that I'm using as the template for adding data is kind of a | pain, so possibly being able to write the entire application in | native Rust would be really awesome. | | [1] https://cmoran.xyz/geospatial | maxammann wrote: | thats cool! sadly I haven't looked into rendering raster tiles | for satellite imagery | | Vector tiles are just much cooler! :D | openbrian wrote: | I heard about this idea from Yuri at State of the Map US. So | happy to see it happening. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-19 23:00 UTC)