[Xastir] Announcing tile support for OSM

[John Ronan]

On 27 Jul 2010, at 18:10, Jerry Dunmire wrote:

> Early this morning Curt committed my patches to add tile support for
> OSM to the CVS tree (thanks Curt).
> 
> Tiles are small (256x256) map sections that get assembled on-the-fly
> to make an image that fills the xastir window. Since typical xastir
> windows are larger than 256x256, there is a small penalty for the
> extra http requests, but a big gain in re-use. Use of tiles is the key
> to 'slippy map' implementations in browsers and some newer apps (take
> a look at TangoGPS for an example). Tiles also improve the OSM
> experience with xastir, just don't expect 'slippy map' performance.
> Xastir's strengths like in other areas.
Dang it's nice... very very nice,

Thanks
de John
EI7IG