Mappoint 2010 Europe (english) on MSDN Subscribers

Klaus Oberdalhoff

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Nov 21, 2009, 5:42:40 AM11/21/09

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Hi,

at least the english version of

Mappoint 2010 Europe

is available at MSDN Subscribers Downloads ...

mfg

Klaus

Marvin Hlavac

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Nov 21, 2009, 6:51:29 AM11/21/09

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Hi Klaus,

Thanks for the good news! What took them so long???!

Review: MapPoint Europe / North America
http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/microsoft-streets-trips/2736-review-microsoft-mappoint.html

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Laptop GPS World
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Sascha Trowitzsch

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:39:44 AM11/25/09

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Hi,

Downloaded and installed now.
Some great features - best of all I like the individual switch-off of map
details and the possibility to control that by VBA.

But for heaven's sake why are they not able to finally implement better
rendering techniques??
Text output is still horrible and dito lines -- try switching off everything
except country borders!
(Maybe they want to make it harder for developers trying to reverse engineer
the maps which is now easier...?)
Is it really so expensive to implement antialiasing?
So it's hard to use MP2010 for presentations -- one intend, they said, for
the switch-off feature.

Ciao, Sascha

Sascha Trowitzsch

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:52:52 AM11/25/09

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Hi,

To see what I mean:
http://www.moss-soft.de/public/mp_ge.html

Ciao, Sascha

Klaus Oberdalhoff

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Nov 25, 2009, 4:38:50 PM11/25/09

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Hi,

> But for heaven's sake why are they not able to finally implement better
> rendering techniques??

i think it's a tradeoff between speed and compression and space.

I don't think you'd get that "Google" quality on a DVD because you'd need
some Terabyte of data.

And : It's not "that" bad ...

mfg

Klaus

Sascha Trowitzsch

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Nov 26, 2009, 8:25:07 AM11/26/09

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Hi Klaus,

You looked at my comparison screenshots?

It has nothing to do with the underlying amount of data.
To output a string for a street name you only need the text of it and a
vector. You don't need more data to draw this text antialiased!
Nor for antialised lines.
And it's also no performance issue. Antialiased rendering nowadays is done
by the graphic card.

Google Maps uses SVG layers (vector format) to draw the map lines. That's
done completely local in your browser.

Ciao, Sascha

Dee Earley

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Nov 26, 2009, 11:05:54 AM11/26/09

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On 26/11/2009 13:25, Sascha Trowitzsch wrote:
> Google Maps uses SVG layers (vector format) to draw the map lines.
> That's done completely local in your browser.

Google maps (and all others) still uses PNG tiles (at least in IE and
Firefox).
IE still has no SVG support.

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Dee Earley (dee.e...@icode.co.uk)
i-Catcher Development Team

iCode Systems

Sascha Trowitzsch

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Nov 26, 2009, 11:12:24 AM11/26/09

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Dee Earley wrote:
> On 26/11/2009 13:25, Sascha Trowitzsch wrote:
>> Google Maps uses SVG layers (vector format) to draw the map lines.
>> That's done completely local in your browser.
>
> Google maps (and all others) still uses PNG tiles (at least in IE and
> Firefox).
> IE still has no SVG support.

You are right -- it's just the route that uses dynamic SVG in Firefox.
Didn't find out yet which scripts are loaded if browser=IE and how the route
is rendered then.

Sascha