[Xastir] Maps Offline?

[Denis Barton]

AGWTracker can use the Garmin maps. You can pick the area you want and store 
them on your hard drive. You can then zoom in and out. Works nice. Don't 
know how many people using Xastir this would benefit or how much trouble it 
would be to add this to Xastir.

Denis, WB8SKP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps Offline?


> On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Kurt Savegnago wrote:
>
>>  Now if Xastir could be made to download the OSM maps while using them
>> (at varying resolutions) and then allow access to them from cache without 
>> an internet connection, that would be kicking A--!
>
> It's been mentioned on here several times.  Do a Google search for:
>
>     Cloudmade OSM Shapefiles
>
> Then go to that site and drill down to the country and state.
> Download just the file that has "shapefile" in the title.  Expand
> that in your Xastir maps directory somewhere and then reindex your
> maps.  Vector OSM maps.  Not anywhere near as pretty as the OSM
> raster tiles, but functional.
>
> You'll need the dbfawk files that are in CVS Xastir to render them
> properly.
>
> -- 
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