Yes, I have started to look at using the tile servers. I expect much better performance when using cached tiles.
73, ...jerry KA6HLD On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski wrote: > >> i've tried downloading cvs version (1.9.9) and using with osm maps, >> it works quite out of box, except zooming beyond level ~15 doesn't work. >> >> i am using opencyclemap. >> >> btw. scrolling is horrible slow... >> there is recently avail software called 'navit' and 'tangogps' >> which has _much_ faster map (and poi) display routines, >> perhaps their code could be used as inspiration ? >> >> also 'navit' can display 'compiled' .osm vector maps (at stunning speed >> compared to xastir, even on 'old pentium' with 64M ram) > > We're not taking advantage of servers that provide "tiles" of map > images at this point. We're only using servers that provide the > full image that we need. I don't recall now whether Jerry was > thinking about looking into using tiles, but if so we could then > cache those tiles as well and zooming/panning would then involved > downloading only the tiles needed to complete the image. > > Until then, if you have map caching compiled in, restrict yourself > to using the PageUp/PageDown and arrow keys and the caching should > give you some serious speed after you've retrieved each map image > that you regularly use once. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
