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Option to purge unused cached map tiles
I really love that GCDroid caches map tiles. I currently have over 3 GB of map tiles cached in my phone, which is quite a lot.
The downside is of course the size of the data. I would suggest saving a timestamp of when each tile was last used, and an option to (automatically, or manually) remove tiles not accessed in X days. I figure X would be useful as anything between 30 and 500 days.
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yeah I like that idea :-) And I think I already have a timestamp.
Let's say 90 days sounds reasonable? Or 60?
Guess anything beyond that means you're not using the data and it can be purged.
There are many places I don't visit that often, but still like to have (data-)cached, not the least because there are worse LTE coverage than normal. If I had the option to set the number of days in Settings, I would probably set it to 200-500 somewhere to be honest. But I don't really have issues with storage in my phone either, probably worse for some others.
Well once implemented, why not make it an option to set the days :-) Problem solved...
You could even consider to have that setting per Tileserver. Not sure it's useful, but something to consider for a few minutes. :)
yes, that is where I would add it anyways since I store a bunch of server specifics already. easy to add caching time.