Hi, On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 13:33 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The GPS is now working very fine with tangoGPS on my FR; I'm storing the > > fetched maps > > in /media/card/osm and they're fetched through the USB via my Internet > > connection, so far so good; > > > > Is there somehow I structured way to pre-fetch maps without using > > tangoGPS and go virtually to the area and walking around there on the > > touch pad? I mean, can I say "I wanna have the area with the coordinates > > X1-X2-X3-X4 and store them with zoom level NN" into /media/card/osm"? > > The reason I'm asking: I will go to Cuba in some weeks, being offline > > there, but it would be nice having the maps with me. Thx
* William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081029 14:51]: > Maps get big though - I have over 1Gbyte for an approx 100x100 km area > around Perth, Western Australia (much of which is blank compared with > other places :) I actually wrote a script to download a bounding box of maps and hard link the empty tiles to each other so as to save space. Though the best would have been for tangogps to support such a feature since that would also save on inodes. It's not fully tested yet, but you can send me an email to get a copy for now. Cheers, Baruch _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
