It seems to me that its no coincidence that Map24 is also a good service - if you check their home page www.uk.map24.com then they are announcing a collaboration with Google. Methinks this is where Google got their map data from, and perhaps some of the software.
Is this really true, or is the compression scheme stable?
Is there a theoretical reason why the re-encoding will throw away more data that the original encoding did, rather than perhaps arriving at exactly the same result, minus the DRM?
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It seems to me that its no coincidence that Map24 is also a good service - if you check their home page www.uk.map24.com then they are announcing a collaboration with Google. Methinks this is where Google got their map data from, and perhaps some of the software.
Is this really true, or is the compression scheme stable?
Is there a theoretical reason why the re-encoding will throw away more data that the original encoding did, rather than perhaps arriving at exactly the same result, minus the DRM?