lunarender3

Rendering of Vector Tiles is not that hard as all the geometry is already processed, polygons assembled and data sorted. If you have good source of vector tiles renderer itself can be relatively dumb. I was able to implement relatively straightforward renderer in Nim language[0]. I have encountered only three hard parts: - rendering map labels on paths (this is really hard!) - how to render labels not to be clipped by tile boundary (I had some ideas but did not implemented it yet) - collisions between labels and symbols [0] - https://github.com/severak/lunarender3/

I am working on OpenStreetMap renderer in Nim - see https://github.com/severak/lunarender3/ (but work somewhat stalled) I needed some language which is: - compiled to binaries - and really fast - has needed libraries (HTTP server, protocol buffers, sqlite and image generation) - it's easy to set up It was nice experience and Nim simply worked for my needs. People on Nim forum were nice and helped me when I ran into problems. It has nice and usable built-in library and I was really impressed by graphic library pixie - https://github.com/treeform/pixie I would use Nim again when I when I will see this application is suited for it (e.g. some command line apps).

- openstreetmap renderer server - https://github.com/severak/lunarender3 - in-browser audio suite - https://severak.github.io/cyber-music-studio/ - my very own social network - https://kyselo.eu/ These are my major software hobby projects. Social network one is more useful than interesting. Audio suite is very interesting but not that useful. I hope that openstreetmap renderer can be the middle ground - both useful and interesting.