On Thu, April 14, 2011 09:02, Jason KG4WSV wrote: > Can someone suggest a method (or give me an RTFM reference) for > generating .geo files for OSM map server tiles? I like the looks of > tangoGPS, and am exploring the use of one map tile set for both tango and > xastir (or more likely just using a tagoGPS map cache for an xastir map > base, since there's a fairly well defined tile interface).
That's a good idea. I think it has been mentioned before, but I don't know how it was phrased, so I don't know the best terms to use for an accurate Google search. > I was also wondering if anyone has looked at installing a local map > rendering engine (e.g. mapnik) so that OSM maps can be used in an offline > mode? I took a brief look on one of my systems (ubuntu, IIRC, could have > been CentOS), but it seemed like an all too typical linux dependency death > spiral, so I gave up fairly quickly. If you've set one of these up, do > you have suggestions on which distro, a good howto, etc? > > I'm liking the looks of these OSM style maps, but if I can't have my > maps in an offline mode they're useless to me. Xastir has a built-in vector renderer. You could download the OSM source data and use it directly. Here's a starting point, but I haven't looked for anything more recent: http://blogs.sun.com/magne/entry/a_first_cut_at_using Also, take a look at Navit. It's a GPS mapping/navigator program. They have tools for extracting chunks of data from OSM, maybe you could get Xastir to play nice with their data format. 73, Andrew ZL3AME _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
