[mkgmap-dev] Question about the overview map

Mon Apr 18 22:34:20 BST 2016

On Mon, Apr 18, franco_bez wrote:

> Is it true that the overview map is only used by Mapsource and Bascamp on the
> PC, but does not work on the mobile devices themselves ?

Yes.

> Is there any way to get an overview map working on the mobile device, or do
> we have to avoid zooming out too far?

For this, there are the resolutions/levels.

With every level, I display less informations, and with the 
highest level/lowest resolution, I only display the same few
informations as with the overview map, means mostly highways
and the POI of some very big cities. This works pretty well
on my 62s.

  Thorsten

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