[Xastir] Script to cache some maps

[Kurt]

One comment here is that OSM map tiles can be downloaded in one form or another.I downloaded 11Gb of north american data osm.bz2 over a high speed link over the weekendin a few hours from Geofabrik.  If one doesn't wish to burden the tile servers howabout a way to deal with the bulk data that is available for use?It gives a decent mapset in YAAC and if they didn't want people to use it, theywouldn't make it available in such large chunks.  
Now I understand, downloading in bulk from a dedicated server is different than usinga tile server but there must be a way around this so all stay happy.
It would be nice to have some means to have a reasonably current cacheable mapsetfor use on Xastir when an Internet connection can't be had. 
Kurt KC9LDH      From: Lee Bengston <lee.bengston at gmail.com>
 To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org> 
 Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2015 10:58 AM
 Subject: Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps
   
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Finding where I will need maps, and then viewing the maps that I need to
> cover for the event.
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Floyd Rodgers <kc5qbc at swbell.net> wrote:
>
> > So can you explain what you do by hand?
> >
>
>
​https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Geo-OSM-Tiles/downloadosmtiles.pl

Looks like there's an existing script ​that can download OSM tiles.  I have
not tried it, and if it works I would use with care given the tile usage
policy.

Lee - K5DAT


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