Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Thread Andreas via Qgis-user
Hi Patrick, this was the only solution I was able to get working. So there is not much to weigh up in my case... I' m just happy that I found something that runs at least. I meanwhile also had a look at qmapshack, which can display the various garmin format maps directly. Whole europe from fre

Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Thread Andreas via Qgis-user
Am 22.07.22 um 14:09 schrieb Greg Troxel via Qgis-user: The link to the style didn't make it into your email. I suspect many would fine that interesting. Sorry, this was not by accident. I found it somewhere on github after browsing the net for a while, it was from a french contributor, but I

Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Thread Patrick Dunford via Qgis-user
You can also apply scale rules when using file based layers on your computer. Using a DB is great for certain applications, but if it is a local server on your laptop, you have to weigh up the pros and cons, since it has just shifted the processing workload from one application to another, whic

Re: [Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Thread Greg Troxel via Qgis-user
Andreas via Qgis-user writes: > I will stick with the 180 GB spatialite db (though being a little > unhappy with the size), but applying a redy-to-go osm style I found on > the net reduced the details of the lower scales, so it stays useable > when staying there. The style has only 3 zoom levels

[Qgis-user] SOLVED: Offline background map for large regions

2022-07-22 Thread Andreas via Qgis-user
Hi, finally I got it. I will stick with the 180 GB spatialite db (though being a little unhappy with the size), but applying a redy-to-go osm style I found on the net reduced the details of the lower scales, so it stays useable when staying there. The style has only 3 zoom levels, so maybe I'm g