How exactly does "manual cache" of data work?

[Crunchmeister71]

@TheAngryArab137

it really doesn’t answer my questions. Why are they only a few kilobytes?

Actually, it was answered by BubbaBlitz…

@BubbaBlitz7348

there are different levels of data collected depending on your zoom level of the are you are caching. If you zoom way in you will get very detailed information and huge download of data, but if you cache from maximum range (zoomed out) it will only collect general data about the cached area resulting in a smaller download.

If you create the cache while zoomed out, you can cover a really large area with very little space requirement. As you zoom in and get to the higher LOD in the cache map screen, it will increase in size. There are 3 levels of cache detail. WHen you’re on the highest level, your cache even for a small-ish area could potentially be 10s of gigabytes.