[Xastir] Script to cache some maps

[Curt Mills]

FYI: I use Shapefile OSM data I downloaded quite a while back from
CloudMade. I don't use tiles for offline use.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Looks like Geofabric also has shape file data, which xastir can consume.
>
> IIRC, some of the OSM derived shapeless that used to be available were
> problematic because the shapeless were inconsistent in a way that made
> dbfawk (the method xastir uses to render shapeless into something other
> than identical lines and points) development difficult.  Maybe this has
> changed and it is worth looking into if someone has time.
>
>
> My personal plan was to check into the approach mentioned previously by
> Jason G, which is to set up a tile server.  possibly in a VM (virtual
> machine). The nice thing about a VM from my perspective is that I'm already
> running xastir in an ubuntu VM, so adding a fileserver VM would be
> negligible additional overhead.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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