[Xastir] Quick Ques.: OSM Maps from cache?

[Kurt Savegnago]

Hi Curt,

  Where's the links for OSM vector maps and I'll give'm a try. :-)  I have all that support compiled in to Xastir.  When I built the code with ./configure the compiler would tell me what support was in the code.  I just downloaded the support I needed for all that stuff, built and installed it.
I then ran ./configure with Xastir and when everything said "Yes" I did
the make and install.  I think the only thing that I didn't build was AX25 support as I think that was already in my machine somewhere.  Works just fine though.

                        Kurt 

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Quick Ques.: OSM Maps from cache?
> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 12:54 PM
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Kurt Savegnago
> wrote:
> 
Snip for brevity's sake
> 
> Can you use USGS DRG topo maps and/or OSM vector street
> maps instead
> of the OSM raster maps from the internet?  If so then
> you can
> download everything ahead-of-time and forget about the
> internet
> connection.
> 
> The OSM vector maps won't be as pretty, but they have the
> same info
> and look good at any scale.
> 
> The USGS maps won't have up-to-date street info by any
> means, as
> they are almost always multiple years (or decades)
> old.  Topo lines
> don't change much though.  You'll need
> libtiff/libgeotiff/libproj
> installed for that support (and in the right order if
> compiling
> those libraries from scratch).
> 
> I think the OSM vector download for WA State was 55MB or
> so.  Didn't
> check how much space it took up on the drive after
> de-compressing.
> They go somewhere in your maps directory, the default is
> "/usr/local/share/xastir/maps/".  You can create any
> number of
> directories below that.
> 
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