[Xastir] Script to cache some maps

[David Ranch]

Hey Curt,

None of the attachments made it through but I can wait for the OSM 
specific ones.  Tigermaps is dead and has been dead for some time now so 
there isn't much point to talk about it to new(ish) users like me.

--David
KI6ZHD


On 11/19/2015 02:16 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> Yea. Here are several, but it looks like I don't have OSM data on the
> work machine. I do however have Tiger 2004 ESRI Shapefile format maps,
> so I enabled those and did several snapshots. Looks like I might need
> to do some local tweaks to get better looking fonts, but these render
> fast! Of course this is a quad-Xeon machine which makes a little bit
> of a difference...
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David Ranch <xastir at trinnet.net> wrote:
>> Hey Curt,
>>
>> Could you send us a screen capture of what your rendered ESRI Shapefile data
>> looks like?  I personally don't necessarily need ultra pretty tiles but I
>> definitely don't need the complexity and resource hungry requirements of
>> setting up a local tile server.  If my old little Garmin handheld GPS can do
>> maps pretty well from a little SD card, why can't Xastir do this too?  There
>> has to be a decent compromise somewhere in this whole thread.
>>
>> --David
>> KI6ZHD
>>
>>
>> On 11/19/2015 01:44 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
>>> What he said...
>>>
>>> I prefer the fastest/smallest vector dataset that will do the job. It
>>> may not be the prettiest when rendered, but I'm more interested in
>>> useful data and ultimate speed than "pretty". For me that currently
>>> means OSM vector data in ESRI Shapefile format, with the appropriate
>>> dbfawk's to render it the way I want in Xastir. I don't use, and don't
>>> desire, tiles. I would like to have contour lines as well someday, so
>>> may investigate adding support for USGS DEM's at some point, or
>>> perhaps I can find ESRI Shapefile maps with the countour lines already
>>> drawn for me, which is perfectly adequate (and faster).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So the ultimate solution for the raspberry pi folks would be to run a
>>>>> tile
>>>>> server on their home computer (so there is no violation of terms and you
>>>>> can download as many tiles as needed), and then run this script to cache
>>>>> as
>>>>> many maps as needed onto their pi. I think that is the way to go!
>>>>>
>>>> This sorta sounds like the worst of both worlds to me - you are still
>>>> tied
>>>> to your home network connectivity to get maps, but you additionally have
>>>> all of the hassles of running a server just to keep maps available.  ugh.
>>>>
>>>> I'm with Andrew, my "ultimate" is vector data that xastir can ingest
>>>> directly.
>>>>
>>>> The only reason for me to set up a map server is if I can't get said
>>>> vector
>>>> data formatted for xastir.  There's a slight advantage to sourcing OSM
>>>> data, since that's the FOSS GIS data du jour.  A portable tile server
>>>> (e.g.
>>>> mobile, incident command post, remote event HQ, etc) would likely require
>>>> a
>>>> fairly well endowed computer (high end laptop, potent SBC like an Intel
>>>> NUC, or _maybe_ a higher end ARM like a Jetson TK1).  I seriously doubt
>>>> Pi/beaglebone/etc is going to get the job done as a tile server, they're
>>>> just too anemic computationally.
>>>>
>>>> -Jason
>>>> kg4wsv
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