You mean Wayfinder? There was nothing for Japan in that at all, nothing that I could find anyway. So, no vector backup. I had to depend entirely on MaemoMapper. If I were to go back next week, I'd take the time to set up Gosmore or something, anything, just for those times when you don't end up where you planned, which is how I like traveling.

Actually, after having cached a bunch of Google street maps before going, and having that mysteriously break the DAY AFTER I got there (grrr), I switched to VEstreet and was blown away by how good they were. They go right down to showing the shapes of pretty well all buildings and appear to be the same as everyone in Japan uses on their in-car navigation unit, when they're not watching TV that is... while driving - but that's another story.

With enough caching, the raster map tiles look great. But, vector does have it's advantages.

David...