[Xastir] Maps

[WE0Z]

I have not gotten experienced enough to develop my own map library so I 
rely of the Internet download from Osmerander. While I see it downloads 
the tiles and paints the map and I realize it takes time to download and 
then it caches maps every time it downloads new tiles.

  The question I have is those tiles that have been cached where do they 
go as I cannot seem to find them and also if they are stored on the disk 
why does it take so long to repaint the map from the disk? Is there 
something I can do. I am running dual-core 32-bit with 2GB RAM.

Bob WE0Z