iPhone Isometric Shapefile Viewer
Not sure if some of you have see the 3D in-door routing application that I did for the ESRI 2009 User Conference. I used Papervision3D for this app, and was a lot of fun to develop. A couple of weeks before the conference, I decided to implement the same app on an iPhone using Obj-C. Being a newbie in the latter, I ramped up quickly on the language (got quickly over my hang ups on bracket, and kinda like the language :-). I started to look at the 3D built-in engine that uses a derivative of OpenGL and thought that I will not have the time to get this up and running. So I started to look for simpler alternatives. I read Keith Peters' most excellent AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation book and used his A* implementation for client side routing application with barriers. check it out here . The next chapter in the book is all about isometric projection. This is exactly what I needed, an isometric view of the CDCC floors and rooms with a small twist, where the user can rotate th...