Hi, > I have developed a mobile-phone Java app (called 'mom') to navigate OSM > maps and save GPX tracks (amongst other things) which will soon be out > there for people to download. It uses mapnick PNG tiles at 5 of OSM's > scales (3, 6, 9, 12 & 15) which look nice but are quite big files to > download to a phone (typically 12kB-15kB for scale 15) so take a > significant amount of time and eat into a user's data allowance to fetch. > I considered using the compact binary downloads aimed at mobile apps, but > this is raw data and the graphics limitations of mobile Java mean the maps > drawn from it would not look very pretty.
Check the source for the Java app "traveling salesman" (on Sourceforce). I believe there's code in there to (a) compact OSM data for use on a mobile device and (b) render maps from said compacted data. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
