Bouncing to newbies On 22 May 2009, at 00:08, Jeremy Brown wrote:
> I just managed to download the set of Georgia maps, and it was close > to 5GB uncompressed! I really need something a lot smaller than > that, especially since TeleAtlas can fit the entire US in under 2GB. > Is there any way to make the size smaller, but still work with a > Nokia N810 without using compression? > > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:18 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > We do it by State if you have a look here: > > http://download.cloudmade.com/ > > and we're thinking of building one for the entire US. I've cc'd Nick > who if you have time you could outline the pros/cons of that might > be able to make it happen for you. > > Best > > Steve > > > > > > On 13 May 2009, at 10:57, Jeremy Brown wrote: > Sorry; my original email was: > > "I'm trying to download a map pack of America to use with my GPS, > but I can't find just one singular pack that covers America only. Is > there one, or am I going to have to download Planet.osm and take > everything else out? Also, the default maps I got with my GPS cover > America down to a distance of 30 feet in about 1.5 GB of space. Is > it possible to do this with OSM maps?" > > to which you replied asking me where I got the maps on my device. I > replied with my last email, and here we are. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

