Comments on: JPEG to Compress Vector Graphics?

By: Burcu Dogan

Burcu Dogan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:32:47 +0000

Thomas, I’m planning to write a post about polylines on Google Maps. As a side note, Google encodes aerial imagery on the lower zoom levels very poorly because nobody is interested to obtain detail 2000 meters above the ground. This becomes possible by separating images and labels; so that instead of a very low-quality background image, labels are still readable.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:50:11 +0000

What’s up with the vectoral overlay on Google Maps, comes with the new Street View interface?

By: Burcu Dogan

Burcu Dogan — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:12:38 +0000

Anelka, after several test I made inside the family, I saw them much more anticipated with the labels on google maps even in the deepest zoom levels. In downtown Manhattan, in the middle of the mess, they find it hard to follow a specific street although NYC is kinda rectangular and great in city planning. I’m not even talking about Europe.

By: Anelka

Anelka — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:59:52 +0000

I’m 40-years-old and find Virtual Earth’s labels on aerial images are hard-to-read. Nevertheless, zooming into deeper levels to read the street names solves the problem.