Vector graphics maps

Posted Jul 28, 2016 12:29 UTC (Thu) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: GNOME Maps and the tile problem by javispedro
Parent article: GNOME Maps and the tile problem

My thoughts too, it has been done, it's just far from the simplicity of fetching png files, so most free software applications don't have it implemented (GNOME Maps, uNav, FoxtrotGPS, ..) or it's slow/buggy (Navit). OSMand is an excellent app and I wish I could get a good vector graphics based navigation app on my Ubuntu phone. uNav is great otherwise though and generally very usable.

Tile based maps take huge amount of space if cached locally, while I had most of Europe on my Openmoko as vector graphics in around 6 gigabytes in 2010. I was using Navit, and yes it was especially slow at 400MHz but it did work for me for car navigation.