[OSM-talk] Annouce : Planet incremental search

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I've just compiled and run gosmore for the first time. I'm very 
impressed. It really is a dirty hack, with almost no user interface, no 
structure in the code, you don't always know what it does, sometimes it 
just hangs, it doesn't do umlauts - but it works! It is only 1024 lines 
of C++ code, it uses only 64 MB of memory, and I can actually load up 
the whole of Germany and zoom and pan to my heart's content, faster than 
anything that uses pre-rendered tiles.

This is amazing. The 360 MB Germany OSM file needs about 56 MB in the 
format created by gosmore (that's 85% compression) - there's no reason 
why, with a suitably adapted gosmore, you cannot carry the whole planet 
file with you on your PDA and view any part of it instantly.

I wouldn't have thought this was possible. Of course the rendering is 
not as nice as done by proper rendering software, it looks more like 
those typical Garmin maps, and there are tons of little things that one 
would like to see improved but on the whole... thumbs up!

Bye
Frederik

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