[Xastir] OSM maps: .geo files, local rendering?

[Jarett DeAngelis]

I am having a heck of a time with OSM.  I compiled support in but it doesn't
show up in my map list for some reason.

KC2KOA
On Apr 13, 2011 8:17 PM, "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>
>> I was also wondering if anyone has looked at installing a local map
>> rendering engine (e.g. mapnik) so that OSM maps can be used in an
>> offline mode? I took a brief look on one of my systems (ubuntu, IIRC,
>> could have been CentOS), but it seemed like an all too typical linux
>> dependency death spiral, so I gave up fairly quickly. If you've set
>> one of these up, do you have suggestions on which distro, a good
>> howto, etc?
>
> If the OSM map _data_ is all you need, and you don't require the
"prettiness" of the OSM rendering engines, download the Cloudmade Shapefile
OSM files and be done with it. Offline maps, presto!
>
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