04 May 2012
CartoType's routing system creates routes, and that's all. A route is a list of roads and parts of roads starting at one place and ending at another. If you need to issue navigation instructions to a driver you had to figure that out yourself, at least until recently.
But that will soon... Find out more...
08 April 2012
OpenStreetMap data doesn't have satisfactory urban area polygons. It has some but not all city and municipality boundaries, but those are not the same thing at all; and incomplete data is useless. Natural Earth has 07 December 2011 Wouldn't it be nice if you could make an attribute in your style sheet, like a road color or a font size, into a variable which you could change from your application? There's already a way to do this using style overrides, but here's a simpler and more efficient way. Invent a name for... Find out more...
14 September 2011 Changes to the CTM1 map data file format allow large maps to be drawn much faster. Recently we had some trouble getting large maps to draw fast on iOS (on the iPhone and iPad). The CTM1 (CartoType map data) files were in the low hundreds of megabytes and included terrain data so that... Find out more...
14 April 2011Changing styles at runtime using XML entities
speed improvements
slippy maps for iOS and OpenStreetMap tiles