[OSM-talk] OSM on Garmin - raster tiles?

Gervase Markham gerv-gmane at gerv.net
Tue Jan 6 21:27:30 GMT 2009


Igor Brejc wrote:
> IMHO converting OSM vector data into raster images and then showing them 
> on a Garmin unit would mean losing a lot of quality and speed, not to 
> mention how much more memory card space such maps would consume.

Could be. But they'd look a heck of a lot nicer, and have useful POIs on
them. (Perhaps I could get better POIs by working out how to tweak the
current compilation process...)

Gerv





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