[Xastir] Openstreet maps offline?

Skyler F electricity440 at gmail.com
Thu May 7 23:16:44 EDT 2015


That's cool, I didn't know that! So what happens when it rechecks in a few
days?

On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:02:12PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron
> > > collision of the <electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>
> > > >
> > > >    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
> <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >        On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:43:49PM -0600, we recorded a
> > > >        bogon-computron collision of the <[3]electricity440 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > > 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
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> > > >      KD**WHB
> > > >      [9]electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > >
> > > >    --
> > > >    Skyler Fennell
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> > > >    KD**WHB
> > > >    [11]electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > >
> > > > References
> > > >
> > > >    Visible links
> > > >    1. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > >    2. mailto:russo at bogodyn.org <javascript:;>
> > > >    3. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > >    4. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
> > > >    5. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
> > > >    6. mailto:Xastir at lists.xastir.org <javascript:;>
> > > >    7. http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
> > > >    8. http://amsatnet.info/
> > > >    9. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > >   10. http://amsatnet.info/
> > > >   11. mailto:electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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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> > KDØWHB
> > electricity440 at gmail.com <javascript:;>
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