Best map format today

[Marco N]

With the years they born many map format, I think everyone with pro and cons. Today, what is the best format for smartphones?

[Maki]

It's a bit vague... are you planning to build maps?

[javy.valcarcepedroche]

Vague and very personal.... All  formats  (mbtiles, sqlite, ECW...) has + and -. Question  very impersonal....



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[jolly47roger]

For Smartphones and tablets, I believe SQLITE is the best with MBTILES almost as good. Multiple levels in the map and lots of Apps (Android and IOS) that use them.



Just as important, they can be read by Mobile Atlas Creator and so converted to many other formats.

[javy.valcarcepedroche]

Read by MOBAC?? Until I know MOBAC dont open maps from files....



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[jolly47roger]

From the MOBAC README.HTM :



 Custom atlas as map source / locally generated tiles



Existing atlases or locally rendered tiles can be directly integrated into MOBAC as custom map source without having to set-up a local web-server.

At the moment the formats used by OSMTracker, AndNav, Maverick and OSMAND are supported. For adding such an atlas as map source download the Example custom tile files source.xml file, adapt the <sourceFolder> entry and place it in the mapsources directory.



Tiles can also be packed into one or more zip files and directly used by MOBAC. For details please see the Example custom tile zip source.xml.

Note: When working with large ZIP files (more than 4 GB) it is required to use Java 7.



SQLite based atlas formats can also be used directly by MOBAC. For details please see the Example custom tile SQLite source.xml



I can confirm that it works!

[javy.valcarcepedroche]

Ok, one thing is MOBAC can import tiles in these formats, and other thing very diferent that MOBAC can open a map file in these formats.

Ok to everything.



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