-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 elvin ibbotson wrote: | poco.org.uk | | I have developed a mobile-phone Java app (called 'mom') to navigate OSM | maps and save GPX tracks (amongst other things) which will soon be out | there for people to download. It uses mapnick PNG tiles at 5 of OSM's | scales (3, 6, 9, 12 & 15) which look nice but are quite big files to | download to a phone (typically 12kB-15kB for scale 15) so take a | significant amount of time and eat into a user's data allowance to fetch. | | I considered using the compact binary downloads aimed at mobile apps, | but this is raw data and the graphics limitations of mobile Java mean | the maps drawn from it would not look very pretty.
If it can draw the SVG maps, it doesn't have graphics limitations. If nothing else, you could download the OSM mobile binary and convert to SVG in the phone. Take a look at osmarender. It probably won't be easy to draw nice maps, but it would be a very useful addition to the OSM project if you can pull it off. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIDLbDz+aYVHdncI0RAlVrAKDwefykLooQbPbnwzwyci6qvVmdagCeMutF l3EMx++jm5aWuvZkEbhlbPI= =BYM2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
