I run Windows and use APRSIS32 and I use more than the OSM tiles (e.g., ArcGIS Topo).
I have used an USB hard drive for tile storage while mobile. You can get really big ones for lower cost these days. Some might argue an SSD makes more since. I am leery of that since I have had several USB Flash Drive, plus, they are costly. If you are rendering your own tiles, then plug in a portable hard drive and copy (backup) the latest tile revisions to the portable hard drive. Most of the time, space is not all that important. I have less than 10GB of tiles and I do look around the world when something interesting is happening. I am in between projects looking to roll out my newest configuration. I wrote an application to download the tiles I need. I started first with something that simply used a GPX file as the source. I haven't finished a routine to fetch tiles within a polygon. That would be useful for counties, cities, etc. A whole state would be extreme. I don't know if Xastir can actually use tiles but it seems like a logical extension if not. Best regards, Fred N7FMH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason KG4WSV Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 7:42 AM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Script to cache some maps On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Skyler F <[email protected]> wrote: > So the ultimate solution for the raspberry pi folks would be to run a tile > server on their home computer (so there is no violation of terms and you > can download as many tiles as needed), and then run this script to cache as > many maps as needed onto their pi. I think that is the way to go! > This sorta sounds like the worst of both worlds to me - you are still tied to your home network connectivity to get maps, but you additionally have all of the hassles of running a server just to keep maps available. ugh. I'm with Andrew, my "ultimate" is vector data that xastir can ingest directly. The only reason for me to set up a map server is if I can't get said vector data formatted for xastir. There's a slight advantage to sourcing OSM data, since that's the FOSS GIS data du jour. A portable tile server (e.g. mobile, incident command post, remote event HQ, etc) would likely require a fairly well endowed computer (high end laptop, potent SBC like an Intel NUC, or _maybe_ a higher end ARM like a Jetson TK1). I seriously doubt Pi/beaglebone/etc is going to get the job done as a tile server, they're just too anemic computationally. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
