That's cool, I didn't know that! So what happens when it rechecks in a few days?
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Andrew Errington <[email protected]> wrote: > The tiles are cached on the hard drive. Not memory. They will persist > after crashes and reboots. > > Try it now (not crashing, just rebooting). > > 73, > > A > > On 8 May 2015 at 12:06, Skyler F <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > The issue I have is that if the program crashes and I am in the middle of > > nowhere in the mountains at the race where there is no service, I will > not > > be able to start the map back up. Is it possible to save the tiles that > are > > already cached? > > > > If I am already downloading them from the server, what is the harm in > > having them save to my systems hard drive? > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:02:12PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > > > collision of the <[email protected] <javascript:;>> flavor, > containing: > > > > And would it be ok to download a few for a specific area, > > > specifically a > > > > bike race that covers about 50 miles? I am going to help with > > > > communications, and it would be really nice if I had OSM for the > > area > > > of > > > > the bike race/fundraiser. > > > > > > Yes, that's fine. All you would have to do is to set run Xastir > on-line > > > for a bit while you zoom and pan around the area of your bike race. > > Xastir > > > will cache the tiles, and it'll work fine off-line so long as you don't > > > zoom or pan outside the area you've cached. > > > > > > Doing so for an entire state at 20 zoom levels in one sitting is more > > what > > > I'm talking about. And what has gotten clients blocked in the past. > > > > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Skyler F <[1] > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > If it is a violation to download the files, why do they offer > the > > > whole > > > > planet for download?** > > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Tom Russo <[2][email protected] > <javascript:;>> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:43:49PM -0600, we recorded a > > > > bogon-computron collision of the <[3][email protected] > <javascript:;>> > > > flavor, > > > > containing: > > > > > Is it possible to use openstreet maps offline? I don't want > > the > > > > shapefiles > > > > > but would like to download the maps that look like the > > > > > Online/OSM_tiled_osmarender. > > > > > > > > The maps are cached as they are downloaded, so you can > continue > > > to use > > > > them > > > > as long as you've already accessed them on-line. > > > > > Is there a specific file type that I can download? I can't > > find > > > a > > > > geo file, > > > > > just shape files. I have 600 gigabytes of storage, so I am > not > > > > worried > > > > > about space, even though I only want a specific area. Do I > > need > > > any > > > > > additional libraries or packages for xastir to work with > > offline > > > > Open > > > > > Street Maps? > > > > > > > > It's a violation of the OSM terms of use to do mass downloads > of > > > > tiles. > > > > The author of APRSISCE32 had his software temporarily > > blacklisted > > > by > > > > OSM servers during a time when it was somehow overzealously > > > > downloading > > > > tiles.** So don't do anything that would cause Xastir to cache > > > > enormous > > > > numbers of files all at once, or try to do in a script. > > > > > > > > The shapefile approach is much better, though the maps won't > > look > > > as > > > > pretty. > > > > -- > > > > Tom Russo** ** KM5VY** **SAR502** **DM64ux** ** ** ** ** > > > > [4]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > > > > Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** ** > > > > [5]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > > > > **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr > > > [a-m][n-z] > > > > [n-z][a-m] > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Xastir mailing list > > > > [6][email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > [7]http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Skyler Fennell > > > > [8]amsatnet.info > > > > KD**WHB > > > > [9][email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Skyler Fennell > > > > [10]amsatnet.info > > > > KD**WHB > > > > [11][email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > References > > > > > > > > Visible links > > > > 1. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > 2. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > 3. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > 4. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > > > > 5. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > > > > 6. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > 7. http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > > 8. http://amsatnet.info/ > > > > 9. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > 10. http://amsatnet.info/ > > > > 11. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > > > -- > > > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux > > http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > > > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 > > > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > > > [n-z][a-m] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Skyler Fennell > > amsatnet.info > > KDØWHB > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
