Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-18 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Samat K Jain li...@samat.org wrote: If you're working with pre-rendered tiles, one major waste of space is the mismatch between tile file sizes and cluster sizes. A lot of people ignore low-level details like this, but it's an important issue for storage and

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-17 Thread Samat K Jain
On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 09:24:12 am jeremy jozwik wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited in the storage i

[Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited in the storage i have available for cached map tiles. right now i am limited to

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i have been viciously limited

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Bummer about the SD card failure.  :( i wish it was just the card failing, it the card reader... You asked about tiles; I think CloudMade has mobile tiles that are smaller dimensions and fewer colours.  Check with them.

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Fox
richard wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hello fellow mappers! for years i have been using my openmoko for my gps tracking mapping general screwing around. recently the device has lost its ability to read from the SD card so i

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: not mentioned in that list is RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) which was designed for on-the-fly rendering on small devices.  (a fork... seems like that would require a live connection to the net while out and

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Paul Fox
jeremy wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: not mentioned in that list is RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) which was designed for on-the-fly rendering on small devices.  (a fork... seems like that would require a live connection to

Re: [Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

2010-09-14 Thread Nick Black
Hi Guys, We are in the process of converting our mobile tiles to 8-bit. Many are 8 bit already - it makes things quite a bit faster. -- Nick n...@cloudmade.com On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Paul Fox p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us wrote: jeremy wrote:   On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul