[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:43:49PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> Is it possible to use openstreet maps offline? I don't want the shapefiles
> but would like to download the maps that look like the
> Online/OSM_tiled_osmarender.

The maps are cached as they are downloaded, so you can continue to use them
as long as you've already accessed them on-line.

> Is there a specific file type that I can download? I can't find a geo file,
> just shape files. I have 600 gigabytes of storage, so I am not worried
> about space, even though I only want a specific area. Do I need any
> additional libraries or packages for xastir to work with offline Open
> Street Maps?

It's a violation of the OSM terms of use to do mass downloads of tiles.  
The author of APRSISCE32 had his software temporarily blacklisted by 
OSM servers during a time when it was somehow overzealously downloading
tiles.  So don't do anything that would cause Xastir to cache enormous
numbers of files all at once, or try to do in a script.

The shapefile approach is much better, though the maps won't look as pretty.

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