[Xastir] OSM offline

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, John Ronan wrote:

> Could someone point me at the thread (there must be one) that
> explains the best way to take the displayed raster (OSM) maps and
> have them available for offline use?
>
> I've got my different map "Bookmarks" sorted out, but without
> Internet, xastir doesn't seem to load the cached version.

Ideally you should get cache hits if you use Bookmarks and then
stick to Pan/Zoom keys (assuming you did that while online to
populate the cache).  That's how it works for other online services.

I don't know if it works the same for OSM.

As another backup:  You can use the screenshot capability in Xastir
to capture images you like.  Xastir creates an image file and a .geo
file that goes with it.  Copy/rename each set to your map area and
you'll have a set of images you can play with from then on.  It
takes a while to do this for a large area for all the pans/zooms
you're interested in, but for a small area it's workable.

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