[OSM-talk] Vector maps for Android

[yvecai]

On 27. 11. 11 22:20, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> Parveen Arora<mail at parveenarora.in>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please let me know some good application to use vector data of osm on
>> android phone becase tiles needs a lot of bandwidth to access the maps
>> easily.
>>
>> I have tried many applications but not found any satisfactory
>> applocation
>> till now.
>>
>> All the applications availble are third party  applications and ask to
>> pay
>> for them at some point.
>>
>> I want to know is there any official osm application for android or if
>> there is any work going on it.
>>
> Unless you are talking about a very small area, say just a kilometer or so across, I don 't think you are likely to get good results trying to render maps directly on the phone.  Phones are rather limited in memory and CPU speed compared to even a low-end desktop or laptop computer.
>
John, you would be very surprised by the vector rendering on some phones:
You can load 1GB pbf of your country in a phone, and browse the map. As 
simple as that !

Yves