[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:58:52PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>    If it is a violation to download the files, why do they offer the whole
>    planet for download?**

It's a violation to do so in a mass-downloading operaton.  It's a volume thing,
something about overwhelming servers.  They serve them for use on line,
and allow clients like APRS clients to use them so long as they don't 
do so in a way that could interfere with their primary purpose.

>    On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Tom Russo <[1]russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:43:49PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
>      collision of the <[2]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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