Hello List, I sent the email below about two weeks ago. Is there nobody that even has an opinion on this? I thought it was quite a good idea myself.
Cheers, Sybren On 5-2-2010 11:45, Sybren A. Stüvel wrote: > Hey folks, > > Running Navit on my Neo Freerunner is sometimes quite slow. The Freerunner > doesn't have a very fast video card, and the drawing of many polygons simply > takes up time. I've worked around this problem by removing detail when > zooming > out. > > Mapnik tiles show much more detail than Navit could render on my Freerunner, > especially when zoomed out. However, I would like to have my entire country > (The Netherlands) on my Freerunner, and at all zoom levels that simply takes > up too much space when only using Mapnik tiles. Besides, when only supporting > tile rendering (like TangoGPS) it's impossible to search the map, do routing, > and all the other stuff that makes Navit so cool. > > My idea would be to have Navit render Mapnik tiles when they are available, > and render the map like it does now when there are no tiles available. Then > the Mapnik tiles could be used when zoomed out, and when zooming in the Navit > renderer can take over. This would give us the best of both worlds. > > One foreseeable downside would be the rendering of the calculated route. I'd > think that this could be solved by rendering it over the Mapnik tiles, albeit > not as a solid line but as an outline. I'm thinking about a highway-like > line, > except not yellow-red-yellow, but blue-transparent-blue. > > Let me know what you think, what's possible already now, and what would need > to be done to get this working. > > Regards, > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Navit-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/navit-users -- Sybren A. Stüvel http://stuvel.eu/
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