Map Caching

[Ed Dellow]

Since there seems to be a little interest in improvbing the app, I was
wondering if there was any possibility to add map caching? I assume
this would take either an upgrade to GoogleMaps 5 or use third party
maps like OSA

[Anders Petersson]

Hi

It's been planned for a long time to add offline maps using OpenStreetMap. That is, one can download the map for an area in chosen resolutions in advance (I think it does caching too).

http://code.google.com/p/geohunter/issues/detail?id=10

I have a half-finished solution of that but hasn't worked with it since last summer.

With Google Maps it's not allowed to cache data beyond the built-in caching outside our control.

What's OSA?

/Anders

[Anders Petersson]

I see, Google Maps 5 does have extended map caching:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-maps-5-for-android-3d-maps-and.html

I don't see anything mentioned about version 5 on the development page:

http://code.google.com/android/add-ons/google-apis/maps-overview.html

/Anders