[Xastir] Maps Offline?

[John Wilson]

Kurt,

I ran into the same question. Wanted to access maps offline. Curt brings
up a very good reference about Cloudmade.

Here is the site.

http://cloudmade.com/

Go to the "Mappers" section and a menu will drop down and click on
Download. You will see the different areas you can access, from around
the globe. Your only limit is your disk size. All you need are the
shapefiles that are in a compressed file. The maps as mentioned earlier
aren't as "pretty" as the OSM maps but are very effective for what I
believe you are looking for. Just follow the instructions on the wiki
about where to put maps and you'll be in business.

73 John



On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 01:51 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Curt, WE7U.