Thread: [Maemo 5] Maemo Mapper
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lardman is offline lardman
2010-07-08 , 14:30
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#145
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
Navit uses the vector data to begin with, so it's an easy feature to support. The problem with tile-based nav apps like Mappero is that they don't "know" anything about the map. It seems to me that one might as well just switch to an app that uses vector data rather than tack on a whole new nav app-within-an-app.


Edit: My recent take on this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57698
That's the thing though, the routing app has nothing to do with Mappero, it can be completely stand-alone and only accessed as a local webservice.

I agree though that a vector map method is probably better for a fair few reasons, but the features and map data that Mappero provides are hard to argue with, and the stand-alone webserver is then a way for a shared routing service backend to be developed without worrying about what the frontends might look like and what type of map data they choose to use.