MapsGL

John Tantalo Software Engineer | Google Maps Link-State 2012 Case Western Reserve University 27 October

MapsGl

Demos

Nord Hall Rome

WebGL

OpenGL for Modern Web Browsers caniuse.com/webgl Code in JavaScript, execute on GPU

Better maps, and a better Web! ...but why?

WebGl

MapsGL

MapsGL

Google Maps ca. 2005

Smooth scrolling and panning with mouse, click and drag Map loaded in background (AJAX), no page refresh

Fluid Maps

Fluid Seamless Dynamic Fast Svelte

Google Maps Mobile (2009)

GPU

GPU

What are GPUs good for? + Great at rendering textured polygons - Not great at rendering lines - Not great at rendering text - Not great at antialiasing

Lines, Text, and Antialiasing

Fragment Shaders

Drawing Lines

Just segments

Just Joins

Joins and Segments

Joins and Segments

Software Anti-aliasing

No Anti-Aliasing

Multisample Anti-aliasing in WebGL

Supersample Anti-aliasing in WebGL

Software Anti-aliasing

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