[Xastir] Pi 3 as tile server?

[Skyler F]

I have a tile server running very smooth no problem on my MacBook Pro dual
booted with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 4Gb ram 250 GB SSD. The tile server has been
night and day for APRS with xastir.

 Before, I had to grab tiles from OSM, hope they stay in the cache, and
hope I got all of the tiles using tile grabber software. Now, I just
download a few GB file of Colorado and have the whole state offline and I
have had no problems whatsoever with it for 8 months now.

With some work I bet that a tile server can be installed on your raspberry
pi 3 and will server.

I think I used this tutorial
https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/building-a-tile-server-from-packages/

73
Skyler KDØWHB

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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