On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Kurt <[email protected]> wrote:
> One comment here is that OSM map tiles can be downloaded in one form or > another.I downloaded 11Gb of north american data osm.bz2 over a high speed > link over the weekendin a few hours from Geofabrik. Looks like Geofabric also has shape file data, which xastir can consume. IIRC, some of the OSM derived shapeless that used to be available were problematic because the shapeless were inconsistent in a way that made dbfawk (the method xastir uses to render shapeless into something other than identical lines and points) development difficult. Maybe this has changed and it is worth looking into if someone has time. My personal plan was to check into the approach mentioned previously by Jason G, which is to set up a tile server. possibly in a VM (virtual machine). The nice thing about a VM from my perspective is that I'm already running xastir in an ubuntu VM, so adding a fileserver VM would be negligible additional overhead. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
