[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4

[James Ewen]

Remember that there is an OSM tile server (or more aptly) multiple
tile servers out there, but the OSM data can also be had in shapefile
format.

As for the excuse that OSM data is wrong, that doesn't hold water as
the tiger data was happily consumed even though it too was wrong. As a
matter of fact, I would defy anyone to find a "correct" map anywhere
on the planet.

OSM data can be consumed, and turned into a commercial product if so
desired under the current license. The biggest licensing issue with
the OSM product is on the ingestion side of things, they are always
worried about the license associated with the incoming data, and
there's never any noise made about the outgoing product.

Lynn Deffenbaugh KJ4ERJ has created a new APRS client APRSISCE/32
(yeah, what a great name... even worse than XASTIR) that uses the OSM
tiles for it's maps.

http://aprsisce.wikidot.com/

James
VE6SRV