Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Grant Slater
Alexander Menk wrote: Hi! maybe a good intermediate solution would be to provide zipped wget -r copies of the wiki? Of course not everybody shall do wget -r wiki.openstreetmap.org because this would cause to much load, but I could offer some webspace and do weekly snapshots or s.th. like

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Roeland Douma
I think putting a wiki on a CD is not a smart idea at all. Some reformatting will have to be done. Else a lot of links won't work (just take the login stuff). But good to hear we might get a dump every X days soon :) --Roeland On Monday 10 November 2008 16:20:57 Alexander Menk wrote: Hi!

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Alexander Menk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Roeland Douma wrote: I think putting a wiki on a CD is not a smart idea at all. Some reformatting will have to be done. Else a lot of links won't work (just take the login stuff). I'm open for any input on

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Alexander Menk
Hi! Roeland Douma wrote: I think putting a wiki on a CD is not a smart idea at all. Some reformatting will have to be done. Else a lot of links won't work (just take the login stuff). I'm open for any input on smarter ideas ;-) Is there a nice way for transforming a wiki dump to let's say a

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread sylvain letuffe
There are lots of attempts of making wikipedia offline, non of them are simple solution, and they almost never have images. And what about just doing a basic and simple HTML copy ? ( if the goal is to be rendered loacaly with a borwser) Download httrack, get fun with parameters, get a local

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 10 Nov 2008, at 16:31, sylvain letuffe wrote: There are lots of attempts of making wikipedia offline, non of them are simple solution, and they almost never have images. And what about just doing a basic and simple HTML copy ? ( if the goal is to be rendered loacaly with a borwser)

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-10 Thread Marc Schütz
Am Montag 10 November 2008 17:44:00 schrieb Shaun McDonald: On 10 Nov 2008, at 16:31, sylvain letuffe wrote: There are lots of attempts of making wikipedia offline, non of them are simple solution, and they almost never have images. And what about just doing a basic and simple HTML copy

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-09 Thread Roeland Douma
I would like this as well. A daily dump or something would be great to provide a read-only mirror. --Roeland On Sunday 09 November 2008 12:44:43 Alexander Menk wrote: Hi! is it possible to download a dump of the openstreetmap wiki (media wiki tables and pictures, if possible) for offline

[OSM-talk] Wiki Offline Copy?

2008-11-09 Thread Alexander Menk
Hi! is it possible to download a dump of the openstreetmap wiki (media wiki tables and pictures, if possible) for offline use? I think this would be good for countries with poor internet connection.. Thanks to JOSM, mapping already can be done offline - but then the important info from the