Brett and Curt, The only problem is that bulk downloads are strongly discouraged, and expressly prohibited for some zoom levels, by the OSM tile servers. See the policy at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy
Of course other tile servers may have different policies, and I know of at least one program that appears to violate the policy. Not that I would ever suggest anyone should violate the policy, but I would hope that if they did they would not use the XASTIR user-agent setting. ...jerry On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Brett Friermood wrote: > >> I am wondering, though, if there is a way to download a large area >> of tiles explicitly for offline use? > > I just thought of a sneaky way: Write a Perl or Python script which > uses xastir_udp_client to send packets into Xastir. Set up Xastir > to track the object. Have the object run along the map in a zig-zag > pattern across the area of interest. Repeat at each zoom level > you're interested in. That will force caching of the tiles of > interest. Yea, you can tell I lost too much sleep last night > playing with code... > > Of course it would be easier/more efficient to write a block of code > for Xastir to just snag the tiles over a region and between two zoom > levels. Or a separate outside program to do the same and then force > Xastir to think it cached them. > > -- > Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> > APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> > Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown > Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. > The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
