diff --git a/docs/design/designdoc.rst b/docs/design/designdoc.rst index 8b9a943..2196e63 100644 --- a/docs/design/designdoc.rst +++ b/docs/design/designdoc.rst @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Background Info =============== The Overviewer's task is to take Minecraft worlds and render them into a set of -tiles that can be displayed with a Google Maps interface. This section goes over -how Minecraft worlds work and are stored. +tiles that can be displayed with a Leaflet interface. This section goes over how +Minecraft worlds work and are stored. A Minecraft world extends indefinitely along the two horizontal axes, and are exactly 256 units high. Minecraft worlds are made of voxels (volumetric pixels), @@ -455,12 +455,12 @@ quickly become too much data to handle at once. (Early versions of the Overviewer did this, but the large, unwieldy images quickly motivated the development of rendering to individual tiles). -Hence choosing a technology like Google Maps, which draws small tiles together -to make it look like one large image, lets rendering even the largest worlds -possible. The Overviewer can draw each tile separately and not have to load the -entire map into memory at once. The next sections describe how to determine -which chunks to render in which tiles, and how to reason about tile ↔ chunk -mappings. +Hence choosing a technology like Google Maps or Leaflet, which draws small +tiles together to make it look like one large image, lets rendering even the +largest worlds possible. The Overviewer can draw each tile separately and not +have to load the entire map into memory at once. The next sections describe +how to determine which chunks to render in which tiles, and how to reason +about tile ↔ chunk mappings. Tile Layout ----------- diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index d425d38..da8bdc4 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ supporting mod blocks is not trivial. Can I view Overviewer maps without having an internet connection? ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Not at the moment. The Overviewer relies on the Google maps API to display -maps, which your browser needs to load from Google. However, switching away -from Google Maps is something that will most likely be looked into in the -future. +Yes, absolutely. The Overviewer switched away from the Google Maps API and +now uses Leaflet. All files which Overviewer needs are included in the output, +so even if you have no internet connection, you will still be able to view the +map without any issues. When my map expands, I see remnants of another zoom level --------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 7ba351f..dafaba7 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Introduction ============ The Minecraft Overviewer is a command-line tool for rendering high-resolution maps of Minecraft worlds. It generates a set of static html and image files and -uses the Google Maps API to display a nice interactive map. +uses Leaflet to display a nice interactive map. The Overviewer has been in active development for several years and has many features, including day and night lighting, cave rendering, mineral overlays, @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Features * Choose from four rendering angles. -* Generates a Google Maps powered map! +* Generates a Leaflet powered map! * Runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms!