[Talk-us] a more compressed OSM?

[jeremy jozwik]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> Bummer about the SD card failure.  :(

i wish it was just the card failing, it the card reader...

> You asked about tiles; I think CloudMade has mobile tiles that are
> smaller dimensions and fewer colours.  Check with them.

i see they have a mobile platform SDK, i suppose i could email them
but i dont see any links to compressed maps.

> Have you considered using a native .osm file, then rendering on the
> device?  You may have to change software but get better results?
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile_phones

at one point i attempted to store a osm for indonesia, it was 1.8gig
so i gave up on that :)