11 June 2010
The Ordnance Survey, Britain's national mapping agency, have recently made some data public under a very liberal license. CartoType can now make use of this data.
We've worked with two types of data so far: 30 April 2010 For a long time I resisted the added complexity of macro parameters. I reasoned that I did not want to encourage complicated style sheets or implement a general programming language inside CartoType's style sheet system. Then one day a client showed me a vast style sheet containing many repeated... Find out more...
12 March 2010 Street maps generally work very well with no indication of height. Check out the well-known London A to Z maps, for example, although the lack of contours and hill shading can be annoying if you didn't expect Highgate Hill. But once you're out in the country, walking, cycling, or touring a hilly... Find out more...
23 February 2010 The beta version of the CartoType .NET wrapper is now available here. You can use it freely for evaluation and non-commercial applications. The .NET wrapper allows you to write CartoType applications in any .NET language, on any .NET platform. The API is simple and... Find out more...
04 February 2010 Several people have asked about using CartoType in the .NET framework. One great advantage of this approach is the use of a standard type system; another is that a .NET component works with any .NET language, on any .NET platform. We have now created a simple CartoType .NET component... Find out more...
Style sheet macro parameters
The third dimension: plans for the next major release
.NET wrapper is now available
a .NET wrapper for CartoType