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+# MapViewer
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+This is a personal project where I try to parse OSM XML data and display it
+in my custom built map renderer.
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+Map data comes from OpenStreetmap.
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+Pretty much all polygons in this map viewer are created by [Jonathan Richard Shewchuk](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/)s 2D mesh generator library [Triangle](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.html).
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