[Xastir] Offline Maps update?

[Jason Godfrey]

It's not a trivial project (although not horrible either) but a few years
ago I setup my box to act as a tile server with a copy of the OSM data and
then pointed xastir at the local tileserver. This allowed me to get good
looking offline maps.

- Jason

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:29 PM Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > Yeah, I know one cannot cache and display OSM maps directly in Xastir.
> >
> >
> > er, why not?  terms of use thing?
> >
>
> ​There's nothing I know of that would prevent someone from doing this,
> however, the next question is "does Xastir keep the tiles indefinitely, or
> are they eventually purged?"  I thought someone who tried this recently
> reported that their tiles eventually disappeared.  APRSIS32, for example,
> has an on/off switch for tile purging.
>
> Lee - K5DAT
> Leesburg, VA​
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