Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:55 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: the best bet would probably be, if tangogps would support the binary maps, like navit does. Just a question... Why, if Navit does the map drawing from OSM data, would you like to have tangoGps do that as well? Christ van

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread arne anka
the best bet would probably be, if tangogps would support the binary maps, like navit does. Just a question... Why, if Navit does the map drawing from OSM data, would you like to have tangoGps do that as well? i don't understand that question -- what has navit to do with it? try to

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: the best bet would probably be, if tangogps would support the binary maps, like navit does. Just a question... Why, if Navit does the map drawing from OSM data, would you like to have tangoGps do that as well? i

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread arne anka
You mentioned navit in your posting, so I assume you're already using it to draw OSM maps on the FreeRunner, that's why I asked. ah, ok. well, yes, i have both installed, but imo tangogps is faster and more usable for general orientation, while navit focuses on guiding. at least that's my

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: You mentioned navit in your posting, so I assume you're already using it to draw OSM maps on the FreeRunner, that's why I asked. ah, ok. well, yes, i have both installed, but imo tangogps is faster and more usable for

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread Ed Kapitein
Christ, You know that the packages are available at http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/ ? Kind regards, @ On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:07 +0100, Christ van Willegen wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: You mentioned navit in your

Re: Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On Jan 26, 2009 4:07pm, Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com wrote: I'll do my best getting navit to (cross) build, so that I can distribute an .ipk file... Err.. The navit project has nightly opkg builds from SVN. Regards Jeff ___ Openmoko

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-26 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: You know that the packages are available at http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/ ? I do now! Thanks, I'll add that feed :-) Still, building my own would be nice as well, since then I can test stuff that I

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-23 Thread arne anka
I was wondering if anyone has a tar'd compilation of all the USA maps? don't have the url handy, but osm has a list of links providing daily/weekly/monthly updated tar balls of diffrent areas and the world. found it, see here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Extracts

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-23 Thread arne anka
Those are links to snapshots of the OSM database in XML, not the rendered tiles that Martin is looking for. aargh, you're right -- i fell into that trap already a while ago! i read some howtos to setup rendering (mapnik or something else), and it is an overkill! the best bet would probably

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2009/1/22 Matthew Lane mal...@purdue.edu: I was wondering if anyone has a tar'd compilation of all the USA maps? Why not use navit? It uses the same osm source, but does the rendering itself, which is not quite as pretty as that from Osmarender, which tangogps uses, but grabbing a map of the USA

Re: [Tango-GPS] Map bulk download?

2009-01-22 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/23 Matthew Lane mal...@purdue.edu: I was wondering if anyone has a tar'd compilation of all the USA maps? I'd like to bulk download to my SD card all of the maps for at least my area, if not my state and the entire country. I'm aware tango-gps can bulk download up to +6 zoom levels,