[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Andrew Errington]

Yes.

On 8 May 2015 at 12:02, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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