[OSM-talk] OSM for mobile web pages?

Steve Hill steve at nexusuk.org
Mon Apr 21 13:03:08 BST 2008


On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Tiles are 256x256 pixel. If you want decent usability you must
> display three columns and three rows and then always pan by +/-1
> otherwise the user gets confused. You could try to simply display one
> tile but I doubt this will work well.

I think Google's just displays one tile.  Of course, we don't just have to 
do what Google does. :)

Displaying a 256x256 tile, but being able to scroll the map half a tile at 
a time would work better, but is complex (probably requires rendering a 
whole extra set of tiles)

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