On 2021-03-01, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> writes: > >> Where do you get the offline ones from? > > It's easy to find them once you know they exist and how they are named: > freizeitkarte, wanderreitkarte (also online), openmtbmap, for example. > Installation is not hard, but you need some amount of free space (700 MB > or so for Germany, for example). > > I like in particular that, compared to online maps, zooming and moving > is super fast with these, and you have some control over what is > displayed and how. You also gain tooltips (street and POI names) and > it's trivial to underlay them with an air map (turn off "areas" for best > results). > > A disadvantage is that label placement and such stuff is not as good as > for most online maps, also not as good as in Osmand. > > Most offline maps also differentiate better between track surfaces. > When it's summer and I'm cycling I avoid green ways in Wanderreitkarte > when planning a tour since I know that it's likely that there is high > grass or worse. > > In my map views most of the time I'm combining multiple sources. That's > a matter of taste. > >> OTOH, the TMS files I have had for years for Google (maps, satellite, >> and terrain) and Bing (satellite) have never needed changes. > > That's Google and Microsoft, they probably have enough money to avoid > such annoyances. Addresses of OSM derivates sometimes change.
Interesting, thanks. >> I got lucky with the WMTS files, though. I had a couple from >> arcgisonline.com and decided to poke around that site. If you look >> here <https://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services> there >> are a lot of useful-looking maps with links to WTMS files that you can >> download and rename with wget and drop in the maps directory. > > Yes, their maps are not bad (I'm currently not using any, though). > > > Regards, > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list Qlandkartegt-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
