On 27 Jul 2010, at 18:10, Jerry Dunmire wrote: > Early this morning Curt committed my patches to add tile support for > OSM to the CVS tree (thanks Curt). > > Tiles are small (256x256) map sections that get assembled on-the-fly > to make an image that fills the xastir window. Since typical xastir > windows are larger than 256x256, there is a small penalty for the > extra http requests, but a big gain in re-use. Use of tiles is the key > to 'slippy map' implementations in browsers and some newer apps (take > a look at TangoGPS for an example). Tiles also improve the OSM > experience with xastir, just don't expect 'slippy map' performance. > Xastir's strengths like in other areas. Dang it's nice... very very nice,
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