[Xastir] Script to cache some maps

[Fred Hillhouse Jr]

I would probably start here if building one for myself:
https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-14-04/

Fred N7FMH


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[mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Skyler F
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 2:12 PM
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps

It looks like creating a tile server might be the way to go if one has
enough memory / storage.

Who has experience with this, and can point me in the right direction for
setting it up, and then pointing xastir to my tile server?

Skyler KD0WHB

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Kurt <ksaves2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> That's what I did in the past.  I believe they were from 08.  Also have
> some of the Tiger maps from 06 .  Kurt KC9LDH
>       From: Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
>  To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>  Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 11:17 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps
>
> 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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