[OSM-talk] OSM for mobile web pages?

[Hakan Tandogan]

On Mon, April 21, 2008 14:03, Steve Hill wrote:
> 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)

The mobile application (MIDlet or whatever you use on the phone) could
fetch multiple tiles and just show part of that image.

Wouldn't work if you just use built-in browsers, though...


Regards,
Hakan


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