Count Franken
Michael Tsai
@chockenberry Even better: on a crappy connection, Android supports cached Google Maps. iOS doesn’t. Not sure whose fault, but it sucks.
If you've ever used Google Maps on a crappy connection, you know the pain of zooming in & out. With vectors, there's less data to transfer.
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@chockenberry Hasn’t Google Maps used vectors on Android for years now? -
@chockenberry All those city slickers are spoiled by their fancy LTE and shiny public infrastructure! -
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@chockenberry But at least, Google Maps work. Vector or not… :( -
@ebf@chockenberry I wonder since TomTom is providing data for Maps they have better accuracy here in A’dam :) -
@isutton@chockenberry Tomtom data is being used on the US only, AFAIK.
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@chockenberry ... with vectors, as you drive out of cell range, you can still make that turn or zoom in on detail and not fat pixels. -
@chockenberry but sadly the street, building, railway station you’re looking for might not be shown :( -
@chockenberry Not really an improvement when the map data is as low quality (in some areas) as Apple’s. -
@chockenberry True…but does Maps actually *draw* vectors, or are the tiles just vector-made? Still looks like tiles loading, same as Google. -
@chockenberry true dat
Sean Heber
Eduardo Fonseca
Igor Sutton
mike bradshaw
Steve Paris
Matt J
Jason Sims
kiggle
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