[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Skyler F]

The issue I have is that if the program crashes and I am in the middle of
nowhere in the mountains at the race where there is no service, I will not
be able to start the map back up. Is it possible to save the tiles that are
already cached?

If I am already downloading them from the server, what is the harm in
having them save to my systems hard drive?

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> 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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