Version 0.4.6 uploaded to extras-devel. First post updated. Changelog:

* Added support for Google map search (press S to switch between CloudMade and Google).

* Search is now done in background - not blocking rest of UI.

I spent some time optimising this build. It has a little reduced preloaded area, better texture memory management and smarter prioritising of tiles to load.

Transitions between old and newly load tile is temporarily disabled in this build. It sure feels like it is working faster because of that - tiles are not delayed for display after loading. Old behaviour was to wait a second for some tiles to load and then fade between old tiles and newly loaded ones simultaneously on whole screen. You could see this this animation when changing zoom level or changing tile provider.

Future builds will have a configurable option for those transitions. Let me know what you think about this new loading behaviour. Do you think it is better?