Thread: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0
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asys3 is offline asys3
2007-07-05 , 04:02
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#118
Hi gnuite,
Originally Posted by gnuite View Post
First of all, I'd like to add an option to repositories to allow them to work without a cache at all. This means that, whenever a new tile is needed (i.e. not already drawn on the screen), Maemo Mapper will have to download it - it won't try to retrieve it from a cache database, because there won't be a cache database (for that particular repository). It's a bit of extra work, but I think it's definitely doable. But is it worth the effort?
So you always should be online to use this. In my region / state this is not the case or to expansive in most cases.
I'd prefer improving the already implemented cache mode if it is possible:
Detect if a tile of a region is outdated in the cache => update.
But on the other hand I think this is not possible or the handling to time consuming.
Originally Posted by gnuite View Post
Soooo... Idea #2 for Maemo Mapper 2.x is to support layered repositories.
Am I right? That would mean that POIs that can be overlayed in Google Maps e.g. can be shown in maemo-mapper,too?
That would be great if the xml overlay structure (kml?!) by google could be directly
imported like a route,track!!
I also see the performance issue with transparency - so perhaps there is a way for you to implement a 'hello world' transparency demo program without too much effort?
So we could see what it costs...

Regards,
Uwe