Frustrated by the lack of a nice map viewing tool for my eee pc, I have written my own hack. It's a local OpenLayers installation that is served by a python script (stock python, no additional libs). If the tile does not exist yet, it will be downloaded from the OSM tile server and be stored locally, so those tiles will be available for offline viewing. Tiles will be downloaded and stored in a directory called 'tiles' in the pyweb directory. If anybody finds it useful that is cool, otherwise I have just scratched my itch.
It's a total of 56 lines of code including the license... so go figure how elaborate my error checking is. It works for me though... Including a stock OpenLayers 2.6, the tar.bz2 is 128kb How to install: 1) wget http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~spaetz/pymap.tar.bz2 2) tar xvjf pymap.tar.bz2 How to run: 1) cd pymap 2) python pyweb (or ./pyweb) 3) visit http://localhost:8000 and have fun. How to uninstall: 1) delete pyweb directory spaetz _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk