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#181
Originally Posted by fw190 View Post
@ Estel- Very close- like in Nokia Maps.
Preloaded Nokia Maps maps are in vector graphics format and thus quite small in bytes. Marble map tiles are in pixel(raster) graphics format (like Ovi maps tiles which are not preloaded and downloaded during use) and if you want large areas in very fine detail, the data amount needed to download grows enourmously large... I have heard, that there is a project to start using vector maps also in Marble...
 

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