Thread: Converting JNX to raster IMG

Originally Posted by Giomen

And what is stopping to use any routable map for routing and searching beneath the raster layer?

No problem to do so with the device. Unfortunately, Basecamp is less capable in that regard. Beside, the screen size does matter. This raster picture looks great when it's displayed by Ozi Explorer running on a 8" tablet. Not so great on a tiny screen of GPSMAP 62 device. This is where the vector graphics wins. Power consumption. Perhaps the silicon chips uses more clocks to render a raster image so more current is drawn from the battery making the device less useful in the wood. The greatest advantage is that this map is easy to make. But what puzzles me, this is a very old stuff, the scanned images (not discussing how perfect they are) are circulating on the internet for more than a decade, so it's de-facto a public information. Why the topological information from this images is not yet vectorized by the independent mapping projects like OSM, OTM, etc.?