Thread: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0
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2007-05-21 , 15:26
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Originally Posted by insert_nick View Post
Really glad to hear, finally, there's some hope we are getting rid of that filesystem approach for maps. Go, go, do whatever you need to completely remove it and replace with something better: achieving the possibility to move a single file rather than gazillions of tiny files back and forth the card would be super-great!
One problem is that the convenience of being able to "move a single file" also precludes the capability to, for example, download maps to your desktop and copy them into your Nokia device. You'd have to first transfer the database from the Nokia device to your desktop, download maps to the database, then transfer the database back to the Nokia device.

It sounds like most people don't care too much about that drawback, though, so I'll just release a FS-to-DB converter, and that will be that.

Originally Posted by insert_nick View Post
On 770, I think you should give the user the possibility of turning on/off those eyecandies (antialias, transparency, rotation, perspective) as I suspect they could reduce performance. And I must say the route calculation web service often doesn't respond, so it would be wise implementing that in the software (even if it takes hours to give a response).
I promise you that 2.0 will be usable on the 770. Some of the newer features may require more RAM (or even swap space), but they can all be disabled. 2.x will never run as fast as 1.x (which, admittedly, suffered from intense over-optimization), but it will always be usable on the 770, even if some of the more CPU- and memory-intensive features are not.