Mike N <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
I played around a bit with the vector-map mode of OSMAND today, and found that it worked better than I had expected. Whatever rules it has for deciding what to draw at a given zoom level work well. I had mixed results with searching for POIs. None of the restaurants near me that are in the OSM database were found if I search for restaurants, but they are found if I search for them by name. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
