Very cool and I' definitely going to dig into this.
For my use (topographic maps) the ability to combine this on the client side with tiled raster data for thing where that makes sense (ie grey scale elevation, their satellite layers etc) would make this a killer platform.
I already have code to do slope angle overlays client side by applying an image transformation to elevation data in a canvass [1] which could be used for hill shading etc but the only available web services are slow, query (instead of tile) base, and use poorly defined encodings.
[1] The "Custom Slope Analysis" tool for identifying avalanche prone slopes on hillmap.com
For my use (topographic maps) the ability to combine this on the client side with tiled raster data for thing where that makes sense (ie grey scale elevation, their satellite layers etc) would make this a killer platform.
I already have code to do slope angle overlays client side by applying an image transformation to elevation data in a canvass [1] which could be used for hill shading etc but the only available web services are slow, query (instead of tile) base, and use poorly defined encodings.
[1] The "Custom Slope Analysis" tool for identifying avalanche prone slopes on hillmap.com