Large Coverage Maps |
This survey focuses on interest in map covering large areas such as an entire state or country.
The image based maps available in BackCountry Navigator have some difficulties in covering large areas, such as the huge size (30-60 Gigabytes), the difficulty in downloading on a mobile device, the strain on our bandwidth and server resources.
For that reason, we are considering offering more in the way of vector maps which can fit in a smaller space - possibly less than 5% of the size, although there are some tradeoffs.
These maps would look somewhat like OpenCyclemaps do now, with some differences and would take up less space.
The image based maps available in BackCountry Navigator have some difficulties in covering large areas, such as the huge size (30-60 Gigabytes), the difficulty in downloading on a mobile device, the strain on our bandwidth and server resources.
For that reason, we are considering offering more in the way of vector maps which can fit in a smaller space - possibly less than 5% of the size, although there are some tradeoffs.
These maps would look somewhat like OpenCyclemaps do now, with some differences and would take up less space.