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Right, Nokia Maps on N9 is not using anti-aliasing in rendering, which makes lines to look somewhat ugly. I don't like that either!

I remember that some guys here on this forum found out that there were some commented out features in QML files of Maps, like traffic information etc., which they were able to turn on. So I was wondering if anti-aliasing could be a similar disabled feature. After a while it turned out, that it can be controlled via a command line parameter (--antialiasing-on).

So you can turn anti-aliasing on for Maps!

You need developer mode for editing the desktop file of the application as root user.

Open file /usr/share/applications/maps.desktop in a text editor and edit this launcher line:
Code:
Exec=/usr/bin/invoker --type=e /usr/bin/maps -u %U
.. to have the extra parameter, like this (all on the same line):
Code:
Exec=/usr/bin/invoker --type=e /usr/bin/maps -u %U --antialiasing-on
Unfortunately, I couldn't find similar parameter for Drive application.

Enabling the anti-aliasing probably decreases the frame rate somewhat, but at least for me, panning the map is still quite smooth.
 

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