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 [email protected] On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > jeremy wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Paul Fox <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > not mentioned in that list is RoadMap (http://roadmap.sourceforge.net) > > > which was designed for on-the-fly rendering on small devices. Â (a > fork... > > > > seems like that would require a live connection to the net while out > > and about. thought it is a phone i do not find the need to pay for an > > internet connection on it. > > > > all saved cache files, i cannot be fetching from servers > > i guess i didn't emphasize how small the .rdm files are. i loaded up > maps (admittedly they were Tiger-based, not OSM-based, but the > compiled form isn't much different in either case) for a road trip > this past weekend. all of MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, and PA occupied 275MB. > > i just tried a download and conversion of all 25bit quadtiles covering > a 20mi radius centered on 34.15,-118.348 (i.e., los angeles), and > while i was cut off by the bandwidth limiter eventually, it looks > pretty complete and only takes 11M on disk. > > there are certainly rough edges: the label placement code works on a > quadtile-by-quadtile basis, so name placement collisions occur pretty > frequently when you're using small quadtiles like that (i think 25 bit > quadtiles are only 4.8km on a side). so bigger quadtiles would be > better. and roadmap doesn't know how to label points -- just lines > and areas. > > (plus, currently, the developer community is very small -- like just > two people, and i'm not even very active, currently.) > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 66.9 degrees) > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
