Hello Xastir crew, I've been trying to work with Xastir on my shiny new Raspberry Pi. I've got it setup and running great in an online bench-test but I'm having issues figuring out what maps to use for offline use. I attempted the 'planet' file from openstreetmaps but that was WAY too big. Next I selected most of New England on bbbike.org to be extracted as a shapefile, that seems like it would work but was again too big for the memory in the Pi.
I don't want to just select RI (The state I'm in) because I frequently find myself in MA, CT and NY. At this point I'm unsure what maps to use and wanted to see what maps others are using for offline operations. I will say I really like the online MAPNIK map the best but cannot figure how I would export it to be local. I would like to cram whatever map I get into 10Gb (free space on the SD card) but if whatever map is larger than that I have no big issue including a laptop HDD for the maps. My plan is to install the Raspberry Pi in my SUV with GPS and Xastir controlling my 2m rig. As stated I have Xastir and all dependencies all compiled on the Raspberry Pi. For anyone interested in setting up a Raspberry Pi for Xastir, feel free to message me via this list or directly. If you don't know what a Raspberry Pi is. It's a 700MHz ARM embedded computer that can run a few different Linux distros. In my case I'm running ArchLinux. Video of my Pi booting up to Xastir is here: http://youtu.be/PdZ_vywomZk Thank you Xastir crew! -- Mathew F. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
