[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Skyler F]

And would it be ok to download a few for a specific area, specifically a
bike race that covers about 50 miles? I am going to help with
communications, and it would be really nice if I had OSM for the area of
the bike race/fundraiser.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If it is a violation to download the files, why do they offer the whole
> planet for download?
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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