The bottom line is being able to store some sort of map data on one's box so they can go portable without any internet link whatsoever. This is what I am talking about: http://download.geofabrik.de/ One can cue up whatever they want. YAAC can process and store the data locally for offline use: YAAC - Yet Another APRS Client The Tiger maps from '06 and the Cloudmade '08 maps were dropins forXastir in the past but not longer available. YAAC's ok but I still like features in Xastir. It is rock steady once configured. Kurt KC9LDH From: Jason KG4WSV <[email protected]> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2015 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Hal Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
> The point of using a tile server is to leverage the amount of work already > devoted to making beautiful maps, rendered quickly, and to serve them > efficiently. It also keeps APRS (and other) clients from having to get into > the cartography business. > In the case of xastir, too late. :) > > From the points made in this discussion, it sounds like Xastir can use > those hierarchical tile sets. I don’t see any such claim at > http://xastir.org/index.php/Xastir_Maps#Raster_Maps or > http://xastir.org/index.php/HowTo:MAPS, though. > They're called "online maps". > Can Xastir be pointed to a tree of hierarchical tiles? > Sort of not exactly. The online map code is different from the offline map code in that the georeferencing data seems to be stored in the map cache database. Looks like I played with this about 3 years ago. From the remnants it seems i had hacked out a script to download OSM tiles and another to generate the corresponding .geo file that xastir needs to use it as an offline map. I don't recall how well it worked out. As I said earlier, I abandoned the project because of the disk space requirements. > Or even better, can it read mbtiles (raster or vector)? > nope, don't think so. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
