[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Andrew Errington]

That's the whole planet as vector data.  It's vastly smaller than the whole
planet as graphic tiles.

It's not a violation of terms to download and use the tiles, just to
download huge numbers of them in a short time.

73,

A

On 8 May 2015 at 11:58, 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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