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Hello,
I use Oruxmaps with great satisfaction on all my hikes and have done so for several years. I'd like to do the same for my bike rides, during which I use a Garmin varia radar for safety reasons. Would it be possible for you to create a paid plugin (5-10€) that displays the presence of cars in the same way as the Garmin bike gps?
With kind regards

Hello,
I have been using oruxmaps for many years with maps in mbtiles format that I create myself with Qgis.
In 2019 came the avif or AV1 image format. With a few lines of nodejs code, I was able to convert the images in an mbtiles base from png to avif. While maintaining very, very acceptable quality, I reduced the size of the database by 88%!

This mbtiles database is perfectly usable with leaflet, which runs in a browser but refuses to load with oruxmaps.
Would it be possible to modify the application so that it accepts mbtiles files containing avif images?
Best regards

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12 novembre 2023
I just redid a test using a .mbtiles file with .png tiles.
I only transformed the tiles into .avif using nodejs and sharp with the avif({chromaSubsampling: '4.2.0', effort:1}) option.
The sqlite file size is reduced by over 85% and the difference in quality is barely noticeable on a smartphone.
The sqlite base can be used as is (no need to change the metadata).
The first load of the the map seems slightly longer (more work for the decoder).

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