References and further reading

References and further reading

This concludes a brief overview of performance-conscious techniques that can be applied when developing navigation systems. While by no means a conclusive list of techniques, hopefully this serves as a solid starting point from which a developer can explore further concepts.

For a more comprehensive overview of general rendering optimisations, take a look at the SDK whitepapers PowerVR Performance Recommendations, and PowerVR Low Level GLSL Optimisation. There are also several code demos located in the "examples" folder of the SDK, which can be looked at for implementation reference.

For further reading on the discussed topics, please refer to the links below:

Source data

Access to OpenStreetMap maps:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Download the latest OSM XML global map:

https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

Resource management

Different types of GPU geometry primitives (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_primitive

Overview of spatial partitioning schemes (Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_partitioning

Graphics techniques

Overview of Anti-Aliasing (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing

Basic introduction to shading (CGLearn):

https://cglearn.eu/pub/computer-graphics/shading-and-lighting

Overview of Stencil Shadow Volumes (Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume

Language support

Language specific recommendations and resources (Khronos):

https://www.khronos.org/

Khronos Developer Community Forums:

http://www.khronos.org/message_boards/

Learn more:

Further reading