Program

Workshop duration: 4 hours

Workshop will be based on materials provided at https://melown.readthedocs.io/

Schedule

0:00 - 0:15 - Introduction

Introduction of lecturers, introduction of Melown

0:15 - 0:30 - Stack overview

Overview of 3D rendering Stack

• VTS-Mapproxy
• VTS-VTS
• VTS-Registry
• VTS-Browser-JS
• VTS-Browser-CPP

0:30 - 0:45

Software installation (VirtualBox image, based on OSGeo Live 10.5) with VTS-* tools and data

0:45 - 1:00: Project introduction

Introducing the target project

• First we are going to setup back-end server project
  • Our scope is to publish 3D surface data along with WMTS overlaying maps
  • We are going to publish SRTM surface data
  • We will overlay the data with WMTS layers
  • Basic keywords will be explained, like LOD, Reference frame, Bound layer, Free layer, ...
  • Vector data overlays will be add to the project as well
• Then we switch to JavaScript front-end
  • We add some styles to the layers
  • Add some control panels
  • Then we style custom overlay vector layer
• Melown Console demonstration
• Closing, Q&A

1:00 - 1:15: Configuration of VTS-Mapproxy

• Configuration file structure
• Where to get help
• Basic options

1:15 - 2:00: Resources configuration

• Creating virtual raster from input SRTM dems
• Creating virtual overviews
• Tiling
• Preparing input WMTS resources
• Generating mask for WMTS resources
• Putting it all together, publishing melown2015 ref. frame

2:00 - 2:10 Break

2:10 - 2:30: Free layers

• Publishing vector geodata as free layer
• Publishing tiled vectors
• Introduction to tiled vectors

2:30 - 3:15: Front-end - JavaScript

• showing of mapConfig.json
• JavaScript vts-browser-js intro
• showing examples
• styling vector layers
• adding custom data, styling

3:15 - 3:20: Front-end - C++

• Showing the same example published from VTS-Mapproxy

3:20 - 3:45: Mario console

• Publishing the data using console
• Showing Console API documentation

3:45 - 4:00 - Q&A, closing