vector maps – As Seen Through PeriVision https://www.perivision.net/wordpress An Mobile centric blog ... Full of Tech goodness Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:25:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 4666035 Vector Maps via webGL finally make it to Google maps on the desktop https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/10/vector-maps-via-webgl-finally-make-it-to-google-maps-on-the-desktop/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2011/10/vector-maps-via-webgl-finally-make-it-to-google-maps-on-the-desktop/#respond Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:23:57 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=5969 Read More]]> Not sure why this took so long. Perhaps dealing with the satellite view. Regardless, its pretty nice. You need to have a desktop with a good graphics card and a browser that supports webGL. The latest Firefox and Chrome should be fine.

The two nice points, is VERY fast refresh, smooth transition from 2D to 3D and much nicer rendering of buildings when zoomed in.  I tried this on my laptop, that does not have graphics acceleration, and only Chrome would offer me the chance to access the mode.  Nice.  Sure it slows down a bit when zoomed out and making new calls, but once those vectors are cached, its pretty quick even in software rendering mode.  Now if I can only get this on my iPhone!

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