[Xastir] demo station mapping cached maps

[John Wilson]

Dave,

I, too, wanted offline maps and could never figure out the "pretty" maps
for offline use. In the " How To:Maps" section, I came across the OSM
portion and ended up on the cloud made website and downloaded the shape
files for my state and placed them in the maps directory. Then I selected
the maps in the drop down menu for mapping. I didn't select all of the
maps, only the necessary ones and you'll have to work on what suits you and
your computer.

Looks like there are maps for the UK, just not sure where you may be but
here is a link to get you started.

http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/northern_europe/united_kingdom#downloads_breadcrumbs

Hope that helps.

73 John
On Feb 1, 2013 8:12 PM, "Dave H" <davekh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I'm building a station to demo at a radio rally this Sunday - info here
> http://www.midcars.org/ to represent our Linux User Group (Shropshire
> Lug).
> I'm in England UK. NOT the US.
>
> I would like to show OSM maps on the PC running on Xastir  on a Mint Linux
> box
> - its only got a 20Gig HDD in it and I would prefer not to use mobile
> broadband (there may not be a signal there anyway!)
>
> So can anyone tell me how - if I set up Xastir running with OSM maps at
> home - can I save the maps and if so can I get Xastir to see them again -
> I've never had any luck in the past when attempting to do OSM offline.
>
> I know I could download the maps - but the files are bigger than the PCs
> HDD <sigh!> I had read the Xastir page on this but as I am in the UK - the
> US help doesn't really help me.
>
> --
> 73s Dave H
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