On 2011/04/07 10:00, Ronald Niederhagen <ronald_niederha...@freenet.de> wrote: > the pre-generated map files from http://www.xcsoar.org/download/maps/ have > trippled in size. Examples: > GER.xcm is now 44.5M, was 12.5M when I downloaded on Dec 6, 2010. > ALPS.xcm is now 30.9M, was 9.3M on Dec 6.
All of this growth comes from increased topography details (like labels for small towns). We had a discussion on IRC on this a while ago; my point was that I don't need to know the names of small towns in crowded areas like Germany, but there is a need for that in less-populated areas like Australia. I'm not sure if our map generator devs are still on it, but it is always a good idea to remind us ... > BTW: it would be nice to know the parameters of these pre-generated map > files, like resolution, boundary coordinates, etc. Maybe a link on that > download page to a document (or log file) with these parameters. Sounds reasonable. Submit a feature request ticket (http://www.xcsoar.org/trac/newticket). Maybe a solution would be to generate several versions of each area; high and low-res terrain, high and low on topography details. Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
