spaetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:56:36PM +0200, Gernot wrote: > >> Hm, that's a pity. Because downloading several of the big tiles for >> making the image on the device is not really an option due to >> bandwidth issues... > > I fail to see how downloading the few tiles yourself and cropping a > few pixel away makes it much more expensive than fetching one big > image. It should basically be the same. In any case, MapOf is supposed > for people who want to have one nice picture for their web page, it's > not the mobile app map displaying source.
I don't know the screen size of the iPhone. But, if the tiles are large relative to the screen you end up throwing away a lot of pixels. If the screen is 256x256 you throw away 75% of them in most cases. I guess this is why he also was asking for smaller tiles. Matthias _______________________________________________ Tilesathome mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tilesathome
