-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jason Dent wrote: | I have a mobile map application. I have found that directly accessing the | tile server works the best.
The downloads are HUGE! Some people have to pay per kB for mobile downloads. Also, you can't rotate and reproject the tiles, or give a sat-nav type 3d view, without horribly distorting the text. If you want to highlight a road or a point, you have to download the map details anyway. | Trying to draw all the map details at runtime | on a PDA is a bit much. It can be done, but pre-cooked tile are much | better. It's not "a bit much". *All* commercial sat-navs do it. When you consider how much more CPU power a modern PDA has than a PC of 15 years ago, and think about the kind of thing those PCs did (Doom, for example) drawing a map is easy. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4k1ez+aYVHdncI0RAhRqAJsEo7sJuFpOieCsllFgXWkT4BEvpgCg2QiE 3s5ge7ZqRZIBFbNcJkyu3j8= =Ka2i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
