On 11/27/2011 4:30 PM, yvecai wrote:
Unless you are talking about a very small area, say just a kilometer
or so across, I don 't think you are likely to get good results trying
to render maps directly on the phone. Phones are rather limited in
memory and CPU speed compared to even a low-end desktop or laptop
computer.
John, you would be very surprised by the vector rendering on some phones:
You can load 1GB pbf of your country in a phone, and browse the map. As
simple as that !
I've been playing with the new PocketEarth, recently released for IOS.
It browses very smoothly between max zoom and min zoom - progressively
removing or adding details. http://www.geomagik.com/en/pocketearth.html
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk