Mark, Your point on Kindle/Amazon and other 3rd party libraries are making me thinking my map provider over... I'll probably look around alternatives to see how it works...
Nicolas. On Friday, April 6, 2012 12:32:54 AM UTC+7, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:06 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I built the app in the resource center that uses the google mapview > > (or whatever they call it). It shows where I am. My whole > > neighborhood is not built yet on the map! My tract is 6 years old. > > Conversely, I can bring up maps with MapView showing things built > within the past two years, though admittedly I found it easier to > determine this via the satellite tiles due to the relative paucity of > labels in the tiles served to MapView. > > Perhaps there is some facility on the Google Maps Web site where you > can report tile issues specific to your location. > > > I can't get an answer from anyone. > > Quite possibly because your behavior has been unprofessional. Rather > than raving like a conspiracy theorist, perhaps you would have been > better served by documenting your evidence, calmly asking if others > see the same problem, etc. > > IMHO, there is little question that the map library could use a lot of > love (e.g., fragments) and that the map tiles served to our MapView > have limits (e.g., labels). Some of this is probably > engineering/staffing considerations. Some of this may be tied to > upstream licensing agreements, limiting what Google can give to > third-party developers. > > You are certainly welcome to consider other mapping solutions (e.g., > OSMDroid and OpenStreetMap), if you feel the data, feature set, and > license terms are more to your liking. Nobody is forcing you to use > the Google Maps add-on, and for a variety of reasons, more and more > developers are choosing an alternative mapping engine. For example, > some popular devices, like the Kindle Fire, do not have Google Maps, > let alone the Maps add-on, meaning that some alternative is essential > if you want mapping capabilities in your app. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
