Drumlin
- Status
- Active development
- Source
- github.com/lappn99/drumlin
I’m a big fan of maps and geography in general. After working in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for a while, my affection for them only grew, and I began to realise the potential GIS has beyond strictly the sciences. I think the industry as a whole will get more attention in the coming years.
That potential can be realised by integrating GIS into applications. The web sees a lot of this, with Leaflet being the most popular tool; it’s also one of the few JavaScript libraries I admire.
I wanted a tool like that, but native, so I started making Drumlin, a library for building interactive mapping applications. It’s nowhere near a fully fledged GIS, but I’m pretty happy with it so far.
Features
- Raster tile streaming and caching from different sources
- Loading raster datasets via GDAL
- Loading vector datasets via GDAL
- Only lines and points are supported right now
It is named after the beautiful drumlin field in and around Peterborough, Ontario, and specifically the one right next to Trent University.