Hi karasu99,

Your map looks already neat and compelling. Great stuff!

Not sure if I understood your first question, but if you only want to avoid rendering the map tiles then simply don't draw the map. The location to screen coordinates conversion also works without -- even if your (invisible) map is interactive. This also avoids loading the tiles, and thus does not unnecessarily use any memory.
(If you are want to use tweening, simply call map.updateMap() instead of map.draw() to make it work. This is not in the 0.8.0 release, though, but in the SVN.)

Regarding your second issue: I am assuming you are preparing your map for print, and that's why you need that in high resolution. So, without loading and showing the map tiles, now, you should be fine.
You should do something along these lines: Create a canvas

1. pg = createGraphics(7500, 7000, JAVA2D);

draw your stuff on it, using

1. pg.ellipse(...);

etc, and store the image with

1. pg.save("map.png");

Best,
Till

Hi Till,