On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8:42:36 AM UTC+2, Harry van der Wolf wrote: > > I mentioned that I would also create a single USA map containing all 52 > states, but it takes more than 8GB (10-12GB?). My "biggest" system is 8GB. > It takes 14 hours before it comes to a staggering halt (out of memory). > With more memory and swapping it would take even more. > Next to that not one single map has been downloaded (only Peter did). > > Obviously people are not interested. >
I think there's a difference to regionalization in the US versus Europe. I think that US citizens always have a good idea what state a place is in. Here in the Netherlands, I don't have a clear idea what province a place is in - I of course had it in high school geography but don't ask me now for the smaller places, especially that lie close to provincial borders. Also, in France, the "regions" are a grouping of several departements. Everyone knows departements (the code is digits 3-4 of a phone number, are on a licence plate etc), not everyone knows the regions and before I used OsmAnd I had never heard of most of France's regions. Therefore, I think addresswise a "state" is more like a country to the US citizen, while a "province" or "region" is, to the not-locally-known person just a bureaucratic concept with no real reason to know. That's why I think people are not so interested in full-US Address maps (besides them being huge) and on the other hand European users are so annoyed by the disappearance of full-country address files. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
