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Info for Online map providers

Basic information

As a provider, you're able to add your maps permanently into Locus. For this we need almost all these information below. Feel free to contact us, if you'll have some specific conditions. Already implemented are cases like paid access based on subscription on your own side, or paid downloading (paid by downloaded tiles), etc.

We need to know

Provider information

  • Map name - main visible map label
  • Provider name - name of you as a provider. Map will be sorted in list by this name and also more maps (with various names) will be grouped under same provider
  • Provider icon - best is semi-transparent 64x64px PNG image
  • Attribution - map credits that appear mainly at bottom of map screen

General map information

  • Usage (type) - For what purpose is best to use your map
  • Countries - Area which is covered by map
  • Description - Html formatted description, that appear on map main page

Parameters for access to map tile

  • server url
  • tile size (width / height)
  • used map projection and datum
  • special parameters - if generated URL have some special parameters, like more then one server (so server is choosen randomly etc), generated access key etc., all is possible.

Parameters for online access

  • ability to cache tiles - yes/no
  • number of threads that may download simultaneously
  • time (num of days), how long tiles can me cached

Parameters for offline access

  • ability to download tiles (store for offline) - yes/no
  • number of threads that may download simultaneously
  • number of tiles, that may be downloaded per day

This list contain only major possible parameters. If you'll be interested in some special cases, contact us to discuss about it

manual/about/add_new_online_map.1432217401.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/05/21 17:10 (external edit)