Yes, would be great to see a live example of client rendered tiles. I believe their ProtoBuffer approach sounds promising and their position in the mapping / O

Yes, would be great to see a live example of client rendered tiles. I believe their ProtoBuffer approach sounds promising and their position in the mapping / OSM community is strong enough to get this to some kind of standard. Have seen a few client vector-based approaches before. 2 of the better ones: https://github.com/jywarren/cartagen https://github.com/jywarren/cartagen MapDroyd - was a product of OneStepAhead - now seemingly part of Cloudmade ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapDroyd - still in Google Play with screenshots etc search for MapDroyd )