microg / android_external_vtm

A vector-tile map library written in Java - running on Android, iOS, Desktop and within the browser

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VTM was developed within the OpenScienceMap project.

This fork continues VTM development. And provides compatibility with latest Mapsforge.

See the integration guide and changelog. And read through how to contribute guidelines.

If you have any questions or problems, don't hesitate to ask our public mailing list for help.

Features

• Java map library
• OpenGL vector-tile rendering
• Themeable vector layers
• Support for multiple tile sources:
  • OpenScienceMap vector tiles
  • Mapsforge vector maps
  • Mapbox vector tiles
  • GeoJSON vector tiles
  • Raster tiles: any quadtree-scheme tiles as texture
• Backends:
  • Android
  • iOS (using libGDX/RoboVM, instructions)
  • Desktop (using libGDX/LWJGL)
  • HTML5/WebGL (using libGDX/GWT, instructions)

Projects

• vtm core library
• vtm-android Android backend
• vtm-android-example Android examples
• vtm-gdx common libGDX backend
• vtm-android-gdx Android libGDX backend
• vtm-desktop Desktop libGDX backend
• vtm-playground Desktop examples
• vtm-ios iOS libGDX backend
• vtm-ios-example iOS examples
• vtm-web HTML5/GWT libGDX backend
• vtm-web-app HTML5/GWT application

WebGL Demo

OpenScienceMap view of Bremen.

• Hold right mouse button to change view direction.

Applications

• VTM is used by many applications.

Maps

• Mapsforge map providers.

Credits

This library contains code from several projects:

• Android (Apache 2.0): some Matrix code, TimSort (http://source.android.com)
• libGDX (Apache 2.0): AsyncTask, MathUtils, Interpolation, PixmapPacker (https://github.com/libgdx)
• mapsforge (LGPL3): based on 0.2.4 (https://github.com/mapsforge/mapsforge)
• osmdroid (Apache 2.0): some overlay classes (https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid)
• tessellate (SGI Free Software License B 2.0): (https://github.com/cscheid/tessellate)

Screenshots

Android

iOS

Desktop

Browser