[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

[Andrew Errington]

The tiles are cached on the hard drive.  Not memory.  They will persist
after crashes and reboots.

Try it now (not crashing, just rebooting).

73,

A

On 8 May 2015 at 12:06, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >        --
> > >        Tom Russo** ** KM5VY** **SAR502** **DM64ux** ** ** ** **
> > >        [4]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > >        Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** **
> > >        [5]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > >        **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr
> > [a-m][n-z]
> > >        [n-z][a-m]
> > >
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> > >
> > >      --
> > >      Skyler Fennell
> > >      [8]amsatnet.info
> > >      KD**WHB
> > >      [9]electricity440 at gmail.com
> > >
> > >    --
> > >    Skyler Fennell
> > >    [10]amsatnet.info
> > >    KD**WHB
> > >    [11]electricity440 at gmail.com
> > >
> > > References
> > >
> > >    Visible links
> > >    1. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com
> > >    2. mailto:russo at bogodyn.org
> > >    3. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com
> > >    4. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > >    5. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > >    6. mailto:Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > >    7. http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> > >    8. http://amsatnet.info/
> > >    9. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com
> > >   10. http://amsatnet.info/
> > >   11. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com
> >
> > --
> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux
> http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236
> > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> >  echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z]
> > [n-z][a-m]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> Skyler Fennell
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> KDØWHB
> electricity440 at gmail.com
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