Another thought that stuck me. (and is probably more an OpenLayers
question) is whether it can pull the graphical tiles from a 'file://'
URI.
They you could place rendered tiles on a local file store and not have to
implement the webserver locally.
Maybe with symlinking and browser resizing
Hi,
you could try using gosm (http://gosm.sf.net)
you can mark an area and use the download-button in the
'Selection'-panel on the right. There you can select which zoom levels
to download from this selection. When you configure nothing special,
the tiles will be downloaded to /tmp/osm_mapnik or
On Friday 03 July 2009 12:47:42 maning sambale wrote:
Is it possible for Marble to cache the data for offline viewing?
Yes and no.
Yes, in the sense that if you browse a certain area, the tiles that are
downloaded are cached in the disk cache.
No, in the sense that only the tiles that are
Rory McCann rory at technomancy.org writes:
Hi all,
A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work
well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I
myself have done some volunteer work sending ubuntu computers to Africa
with Camara [3]. One
On 02/07/09 19:43, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
IMHO, it'd be better to have the rendered tiles on the DVD. If you want to
have a tweaked ubuntu liveDVD with postGIS, mapnik, mod_tile and the whole
shebang, fine. But I guess that doing so will disrupt the workflow of the
people using the
On 02/07/09 17:40, Mikel Maron wrote:
- Offline map editing. ...
It hadn't occured to me to have offline editing. It would be cool to
have that, since lots of the areas that have low bandwidth aren't mapped
very well. However trying to write all the custom code and syncronise
all that up is not
Is it possible for Marble to cache the data for offline viewing?
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Rory McCannr...@technomancy.org wrote:
On 02/07/09 17:40, Mikel Maron wrote:
- Offline map editing. ...
It hadn't occured to me to have offline editing. It would be cool to
have that, since
Hi all,
A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work
well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I
myself have done some volunteer work sending ubuntu computers to Africa
with Camara [3]. One problem with many places in the developing world is
Hi all,
A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work
well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I
myself have done some volunteer work sending ubuntu computers to Africa
with Camara [3]. One problem with many places in the developing world
I wonder if Portable GIS would help?
http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/
Cheers, Joseph
2009/7/2 si...@mungewell.org:
Hi all,
A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work
well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I
myself
On 02/07/09 16:39, si...@mungewell.org wrote:
If you want a 'slippy map' displayed in a local webbrowser this can also
be achieved by having a local webserver or tile cache on the same machine
that the web browser is on.
Yeah that's pretty much what I want to.
I'm curious if it'd be better to
:36 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?
Hi all,
A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work
well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I
myself have done some volunteer work sending ubuntu computers to Africa
I'm curious if it'd be better to pre-generate all the images before, and
then you're just serving static files, or if it'd be better to have some
sort of web server / database / the whole tile rendering shebang on there.
Pre-generating probably won't be the good way to go, I saw some
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
- Devices. iPhone has an offline maps app. It's easy to
make maps for Garmin devices.
AndNav2 (Android) has an inbuilt pre-caching option, this can be slow, the
alternative is some apps that precache maps for trekbuddy (J2ME) also
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote:
The data is the other point. Planet is currently around 6.2
GB, compressed. That could fit on two DVDs. Probably better
That's assuming you leave it in OSM format, you can probably reduce this size
if you switch it to some other
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rory McCannr...@technomancy.org wrote:
I'm curious if it'd be better to pre-generate all the images before, and
then you're just serving static files, or if it'd be better to have some
sort of web server / database / the whole tile rendering shebang on there.
El Jueves, 2 de Julio de 2009, Rory McCann escribió:
[...]
I'm curious if it'd be better to pre-generate all the images before, and
then you're just serving static files, or if it'd be better to have some
sort of web server / database / the whole tile rendering shebang on there.
IMHO, it'd be
By the way: you should get in touch with Engineers Without Borders[1] and
similar NGOs. They sure have some experience deploying GIS in the developing
world.
[1] http://www.ewb-international.org/
Cheers,
--
--
Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es
If you
Whole world dump (bzip2 compressed) is 6.2 GB
It would be possible to filter this to produce a smaller (but less
precise) version, which might be ample for your requirements.
For example a sweeping curve may be drawn in OSM with a node every meter,
taking 100 nodes. When in reality it is
You can also strip out all of the data/tags which you are not interested
in rendering.
Obviously you would not want to upload any of this 'tainted' data back
into the OSM database.
If you do now want to edit, just use the data to display a map (and
perhaps do some routing, etc , you
--- On Thu, 2/7/09, si...@mungewell.org si...@mungewell.org wrote:
Distilling this down to a way which is 'not more than 5m
away' from the
original might save a considerable amount of space.
You can also strip out all of the data/tags which you are
not interested
in rendering.
Or you
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John Smith wrote:
Or you could use some binary format that reduces all the bloating produced by
xml.
...or database [files] as Rory McCann suggested, for direct usage.
Stefan
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--- On Thu, 2/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
Or you could use some binary format that reduces all
the bloating produced by xml.
...or database [files] as Rory McCann suggested, for direct
usage.
I'm guessing the database files would take up more space due to overheads and
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