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,
> 
> 
> 
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