An introduction to the WhirlyGlobe-Maply toolkit and tour of resources for helping your build your own mobile map & globe apps.

1. Serious Geospatial Apps
using
WhirlyGlobe-Maply
Steve Gifford
mousebird consulting inc

2. Overview
Introduction
WhirlyGlobe-Maply Toolkit
Pretty demos
Getting Started
Roadmap
Conclusion

3. WhirlyGlobe-Maply
An open source, mobile first
geospatial display toolkit.
Apache 2.0 License
OpenGL ES 3.0
Fast: 60, 30fps
Globe & Map
iOS
Android

4. WhirlyGlobe-Maply Timeline
Date Version Major Features
Feb 2011 0.0 --
Jun 2011 1.0 Single Res Globe, Vectors, Labels
Aug 2011 1.1 Selection, Binary Distro
Jan 2012 1.2 Markers, Lofted Polys
Sep 2012 2.0
Overlays, Vector Styles, Multi Res Globe
2D Labels and Markers, Maply
Apr 2013 2.1
Shapes, Text Layout
OpenGL ES 2.0, Component Distro
Oct 2013 2.2
Performance, Shaders, Elevation
Maply Features
Mar 2014 2.3
Animation, Tiled Vector Maps, 2D Map Features,
Android
Oct 2015 2.4
Atmosphere, Night/Day shading, Particles, Stars Sun & Moon,
Cesium Elevation, 3D models, Shader Motion

5. Users
Weather
Maps
Aerospace
Education

6. Dark Sky: Weather

7. Gaia GPS: Mapping

8. World Atlas: Education

9. FlyQ EFB: Aviation

10. Airspace Explorer

11. Developing Your own Apps
Mobile web vs. Native
iOS Development tools
iOS Tutorials
Image Layer Example
WhirlyGlobe-Maply Tutorials

12. Native Dev for Mobile
Pros
Apps more interactive
Better integrated into system
Cons
Development tools unfamiliar
One version of app per platform

13. Web Geospatial for Mobile
You can, but keep it simple
Not as interactive
Not very well integrated
Example
Google Maps for Web (vs)
Google Maps App

14. iOS Dev Tools
Xcode

15. iOS Tutorials
Apple’s Own Tutorials
developer.apple.com
Apple’s Xcode Templates
Ray Wenderlich’s site
www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials
Many others (search: ‘iOS tutorial’)

16. WhirlyGlobe-Maply Tutorials

17. Image Layers

18. Image Paging Tutorials

19. Flat Map

20. Flat Map Tutorial

21. Screen Markers (pins)

22. Screen Marker Tutorials

23. Roadmap
Optimization for image layers
Vector Map Tiles - More style support
More advanced cartography
Clustering & Particles & LIDAR Display
Android - Lots more features
Feature testing framework

24. Marker Clustering

25. Particle Systems

26. LIDAR Display

27. Summary
WhirlyGlobe-Maply
Watched Pretty demos
Discussed Geospatial on web vs native
Talked about development
Go write some apps!

28. Links & Contacts
Contact
sjg@mousebirdconsulting.com
@mousebirdc
mousebirdconsulting.com
Slides {will tweet}
WhirlyGlobe-Maply mousebird.github.io/WhirlyGlobe