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Old 01-29-2006, 04:23 AM   #130
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Great use of google maps.

A question about the cached files? If the size limit is 2Gb and that stores a cities worth of information couldn't you create a .dat file for each city and save it locally/make available for download, then use skinbedder and autoit to change/update the .dat file depending on where the user was?

What if I create a button that gets the current gps position and then plots a 100 mile circle around that area. Couldn't I use that NEMA data and feed it into google earth to automatically generate a cached map?

My idea would be to connect to a 802.11b network before I leave download the local maps, disconnect and keep using google maps. This is assuming you can pull data from google earth quickly.

I will start testing now.
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