[Xastir] Map.GEO files

David A. Ranch xastir at trinnet.net
Sun Jun 23 22:02:03 EDT 2013


Hello Curt, Everyone,

> Yes, Xastir can auto-cache the OSM tiles.  I'm using those maps at 
> work and home.  The trick there as I recall it is to pan across the 
> area of interest at each zoom level you may want to use.  <F4> when 
> using OSM maps will go to the best zoom level nearby for reading the 
> map labels.

Would it be difficult to write a script that would take say a MaidenHead 
square and then pre-fetch all the zoom levels for it automatically?  
Sure would be handy.

--David



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