[Xastir] OSM offline

[Andrew Errington]

On Thu, July 8, 2010 14:52, Thomas Sprinzing wrote:
> I've had a look at the meerkator webpage. Frankly, i don't need
> another map editing piece of software on my computer.
<snip>
> Why not use the built-in rendering engine, and have xastir interpret
> the shapefiles, and draw nice maps. It was possible before, it should be
> now.
>
> I rest my case: it's probably an hour and a half for the guy who
> created dbfawk to create a half-decent, commented dbfawk for osm
> shapefiles. Put it in the wiki, or better, put it in the install package
> as well. Done.

This guy was doing it 2 years ago:

http://blogs.sun.com/magne/entry/a_first_cut_at_using

Actually, I should say "that one guy did it that one time, you know". 
Googling for Xastir and OSM brings up a disappointingly small number of
hits, probably because the things that frustrate you frustrate others.

73,

Andrew