[Xastir] Pi 3 as tile server?

[Curt Mills]

For that application I'd go with Shapefiles or some other vector format.
Shapefiles are convenient. Should take up little space yet render ok on
your screen. Where to get them is the question, but OSM extracts or
Tigermap Shapefiles are what I'd hunt for.

Roger on the not-as-pretty, but I'm of the mind that functional is better
than pretty.


On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Freddie <fmhillhouse at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I guess that what you are doing is significantly different than my usage.
>
>
> Yep.
>
> I track stuff - balloon and rockets.
>
> With balloons, I do not know exactly where they will land, and I will need
> fairly detailed data about the random area where they do land.  This means
> that I really need a significant chunk of 3 states at _all_ zoom levels.
>
> I'd like to be able to use this as a mapping navigation device.  i don't
> expect directions, but if i could get arbitrary maps that were readable,
> then i'd permanently mount it in my vehicle. in this case i'd also need
> detailed tiles of an arbitrarily large area (e.g. anywhere i'm likely to
> wander).  If I don't have detail it isn't any good to me.
>
>
> I strongly suspect what I'm trying to do isn't really feasible, but the
> cool kids are all using tiles and I thought I'd check it out.
>
> I'll probably end up getting the new TIGER files and updating the dbfawks,
> if necessary.  maybe not as pretty as a Mapnik tile, but it works for me.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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