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	gnuite	2007-11-03 , 07:45
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Originally Posted by loki

another thing are the black areas while moving the maps. as mentioned, this is not just really annoying but it really slows you down while moving. you could move by far faster with the old method. so perhaps you can add an option to choose the old method or the new one for navigating.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. By "moving" in this case, do you mean panning (as opposed to your GPS moving)? No amount of extra memory utilization is going to give you unlimited ability to arbitrarily pan as much as you want. The added delay is due to accessing the database, which leads to your second question....

Originally Posted by loki

there is another question: perhaps this is because of the new moving method, but the new map database seems to be much slower than the pure maps system. so, why was this changed?

Yes, the database solution is slower than the file system-based solution, but it reduces disk space utilization by about half. For the majority of use cases (limited memory card space), this is preferable to faster map access.

Originally Posted by loki

a cool thing is, that you can choose indiviual icons for pois. but can you use a general replacement for poi icons if you didn't select an indiviual icon, so that we never have to see the ugly purple squares?

Use a file named "poi.jpg" to modify the "default" POI representation.

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