Hello Mike,
Sendero uses the RichMap engine by deCarta which at the time over 10 years
ago was the most compressed format in the industry, but times have changed
and the original deCarta RichMap engine is no longer the most compressed
format out there. Now if we were to use some other engine that would
require probably 1 man year to port over to the new improved format which
would be a highly compressed format but at what trade off? Who is to say
all current functionality would be in this new format. Also in doing this
we would have to charge users more since licensing a newer engine would
undoubtedly cost more than our current contract and we would have to pass
that cost to you. Not to mention all you would get is a more compressed
map
file format, you may loose functionality, it may cost more, and you would
not get any new features since all my time would be to convert over to a
new
format. Then there is no guaranty it would run under all the OS's we
currently run on (ie. they may not have a WinCE version so then all
BrailleNote / HIMS Sense products would loose out.
So this is why we haven't switch to another map database format.
Hope this clears up this issue.
Thanks.
Charles LaPierre, CTO
Sendero Group LLC
http://www.SenderoGroup.com
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 2:26 PM
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gps-talkusers] size of maps
Hey everyone, I guess this would mainly go to the sendero developers.
It ays that the size of the entire United States is around 13 GB in
size, yet the TomTom and Navigon apps for the Iphone only take about
1.6 GB for the size, this includes the entire United States. In
particular, the TomTom app uses the Teleatlas, or I guess it's now the
TomTOm maps, unless the sendero maps include more detail, but thought I
would ask.
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