FYI: I use Shapefile OSM data I downloaded quite a while back from CloudMade. I don't use tiles for offline use.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Curt, WE7U _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
