MrPTrog
August 27th, 2007, 19:20
First I would like to thank Deniska & in7ane for their fine work. Either program would be useless without the other.
I would also like to thank every one who posted answers to noob question and even created flash movies explaining how to do the little thing needed to get this fine program running. I had never extracted files from my flash memory before. To anyone who has, it is so obvious as to not need mentioning. But a little digging in these forums found all my answers.
With your help I have .5 running with a 500meg map of my local;) area. SWEET. My PSP-290 takes about 30 sec to get a fix and I am driving with full GPS goodness.
So let me get to my Question. How hard would it be to switch over to GPSS based vector maps generated on the fly?
1. Data is freely available for most countries.
2. Map of the Entire country in the space of a Raster based state map.
3. Should be easier to generate on the fly directions and routing.
Google maps and those like it make their money off off people visiting the sites linked off of their maps. I spent 5 hours downloading over 232,000 tiles, twice. (I messed it up the first time.)
This leeching is very easy to detect once it is noticed. My fear is that once the map sites see what is going on, they will start blocking requests from one IP address after the first hundred or so in order to curtail this behaviour.
Robin seems to list most of the important considerations about vector mapping on his site. Check it out. He even has demo software to try out.
http://www.gpss.tripoduk.com/vector.htm
Thanks for everything!
MrPTrog
I would also like to thank every one who posted answers to noob question and even created flash movies explaining how to do the little thing needed to get this fine program running. I had never extracted files from my flash memory before. To anyone who has, it is so obvious as to not need mentioning. But a little digging in these forums found all my answers.
With your help I have .5 running with a 500meg map of my local;) area. SWEET. My PSP-290 takes about 30 sec to get a fix and I am driving with full GPS goodness.
So let me get to my Question. How hard would it be to switch over to GPSS based vector maps generated on the fly?
1. Data is freely available for most countries.
2. Map of the Entire country in the space of a Raster based state map.
3. Should be easier to generate on the fly directions and routing.
Google maps and those like it make their money off off people visiting the sites linked off of their maps. I spent 5 hours downloading over 232,000 tiles, twice. (I messed it up the first time.)
This leeching is very easy to detect once it is noticed. My fear is that once the map sites see what is going on, they will start blocking requests from one IP address after the first hundred or so in order to curtail this behaviour.
Robin seems to list most of the important considerations about vector mapping on his site. Check it out. He even has demo software to try out.
http://www.gpss.tripoduk.com/vector.htm
Thanks for everything!
MrPTrog