Thread: Plans for Maemo Mapper v2.0
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2007-07-05 , 05:17
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Originally Posted by asys3 View Post
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Detect if a tile of a region is outdated in the cache =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.
Yeah, that's probably excessive. If you're using a non-transient (i.e. standard) map repository, there isn't much ROI in checking for out-of-dateness. You can still overwrite existing maps using the "Manage Maps" dialog, if you want.

Originally Posted by asys3 View Post
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!!
Not quite. POIs in Google Maps are not implemented as bitmap overlays, so that wouldn't really work. Even if it did, you'd probably have to define a separate repository for each POI search criterion, which is far too inconvenient. No, I'd have to write a POI web service in order to parse Google's POI HTML output and convert it to GPX - not impossible, maybe someday.