Many users are only interested in the local city and not too worried about having the latest version of the map. People have used three year old printed maps quite happily for years and for foot, public transport and cycling a cached map on the device works fine most of the time. Render with something like Maperitive and you don't need an Internet connection. Run it on a tablet and you have the ideal tourist map that can show you how to get from here to there without having a 3G data plan.
I'm not saying its perfect for everyone but it may work for some and thus lower the demand on the servers. Cheerio John On 3 July 2010 12:11, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 July 2010 02:07, john whelan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was only thinking of using the local computer resources for the local > > user, not going cloud. > > For that specific problem you still have a large chunk of data to > transfer before the local computer resource can do something useful > with it, the bigger the distance between way points the more data that > needs to be transferred. >
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