[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:02:12PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>    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.

Yes, that's fine.  All you would have to do is to set run Xastir on-line
for a bit while you zoom and pan around the area of your bike race.  Xastir
will cache the tiles, and it'll work fine off-line so long as you don't
zoom or pan outside the area you've cached.

Doing so for an entire state at 20 zoom levels in one sitting is more what
I'm talking about.  And what has gotten clients blocked in the past.

>    On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Skyler F <[1]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 <[2]russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 
>        On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:43:49PM -0600, we recorded a
>        bogon-computron collision of the <[3]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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