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pbsurf
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Comment #45241132
Another SVG website: https://styluslabs.com/
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Comment #45124137
No business, just me!
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Comment #45124123
Yes, you can download any region and set of layers for offline use.
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Comment #45121188
I've been building https://github.com/styluslabs/maps with support for 3D terrain, custom layers, and plugins for search and routing. Vector tiles are generated and served on-deman…
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Comment #44248818
This is great! I recently built a simple project to generate and serve vector tiles on demand from a GOL file: https://github.com/styluslabs/geodesk-tiles
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Comment #43964712
I'm working on https://github.com/styluslabs/maps/ including a new 3D map engine (based on Tangram-ES) and JS plugin support, so while there is no offline routing yet, support for …
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Comment #43599293
I've built a server for generating OpenStreetMap vector tiles on demand from a GeoDesk database, which is barely larger than an .osm.pbf (100GB vs. 80GB for current planet.osm.pbf)…
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Comment #42674956
I'm working on https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - has Sentinel-2 imagery, slope angle shading and custom slope shading including slope aspect.
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Comment #41343384
https://github.com/styluslabs/maps - open-source maps app
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Comment #38768414
I believe QML ListView actually does support kinetic scrolling - Qt calls it "flicking". To get behavior closer to React Native, it might work to decrease the value of the Flickabl…
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Comment #34793408
Juries, perhaps?
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Comment #33857510
Excellent until the charging ports burn out, requiring a motherboard replacement: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Ca...
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Comment #32418093
GPU vector graphics library I released a few years ago: https://github.com/styluslabs/nanovgXC - basically a new backend for nanovg that supports arbitrary paths. Coverage calculat…
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Comment #32115781
Getting sufficient antialiasing quality for 2D graphics is difficult on GPUs. https://github.com/memononen/nanovg accomplishes this with GL2/GLES2 level hardware for most of the st…
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Comment #30439045
Regarding aluminum vs. steel - I've had two aluminum frames crack after a couple years of normal riding (no crashes). Trek, to their credit, honored their warranty and replaced the…
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Comment #30169118
I'm working on computational chemistry, with the very long-term (decades) goal of designing molecules (proteins/enzymes) for things like artificial photosynthesis and molecular com…
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Comment #24676798
Take at look at https://github.com/styluslabs/stylusboard - no web client but native apps for all major platforms
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Comment #24251758
For my cross-platform app, I was originally using Qt for desktop platforms and Android. I was fairly happy with Qt on the desktop, but less so on Android, in part because I was usi…
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Comment #24120610
One way that SVG could be used for multipage documents is with a convention that the top-level tag is the document and child tags are the pages - this is what I do in my app. I als…
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Comment #23515328
I've just released a fork of nanovg that does GPU rendering a bit like Pathfinder, so it can support arbitrary paths - nanovg's antialiasing has some issues with thin filled paths.…
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Comment #23275237
Seems to be the only one here with real stylus support - pressure sensitivity and draw with pen, pan with finger. Very nice!
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Comment #23275060
I've added shared whiteboarding to my handwriting app: http://styluslabs.com/share It is possible to deploy your own server.
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Comment #17859156
I'm hoping to add some rough OCR to allow searching in the future. In the meantime, if you turn off pressure sensitivity (Pen menu -> Custom Pen), you'll get raw strokes in the SVG…
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Comment #17859000
Creator here. Although the site hasn't been updated in a while Write isn't dead - there will be a major update coming out in a few months.
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Comment #14382685
Fuel consumption works out to between 2 and 4 mpg, depending on payload.