I wonder if Portable GIS would help? http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis/
Cheers, Joseph 2009/7/2 <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> A team has formed amoung the Ubuntu community to help make Ubuntu work >> well for NGOs (Non-Govermental Organisations, aka charities) [1] [2]. I >> myself have done some volunteer work sending ubuntu computers to Africa >> with Camara [3]. One problem with many places in the developing world is >> non-existant or poor internet bandwidth. Many people have made an >> Offline Wikipedia, Camara has done and it has been very successful. >> >> It occured to me that having good free offline maps would also be very >> valuable, i.e. an offline OpenStreetMap. >> >> Has anyone done this with OSM? > > Hi Rory, > I guess it depends on the precise requirements. > > Are you asking whether sections of geodata can be rendered into 'picture > files' for view later? Of course this is basically what is happening all > the time. > > If you want a 'slippy map' displayed in a local webbrowser this can also > be achieved by having a local webserver or tile cache on the same machine > that the web browser is on. > > Richard wrote up how to build/run a tileserver on Ubuntu: > http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server > >> >> If not, it should be easy enough to generate and create a CD, which >> leads me to my next question. Approximatly how big are all the map >> tiles? I doubt you'd fit the whole planet on a DVD. There might be ways >> to make it simplified, less zoom levels, black & white vs colour, >> restricted area, etc. >> > > Leads me to ask an OpenLayers question.... can it support a fall back on > the tile server. So one machine has priority covering a specific area, and > when that area is left another machine takes over? > > Cheers, > Mungewell. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
