Hey Curt,
Could you send us a screen capture of what your rendered ESRI Shapefile
data looks like? I personally don't necessarily need ultra pretty tiles
but I definitely don't need the complexity and resource hungry
requirements of setting up a local tile server. If my old little Garmin
handheld GPS can do maps pretty well from a little SD card, why can't
Xastir do this too? There has to be a decent compromise somewhere in
this whole thread.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 11/19/2015 01:44 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
What he said...
I prefer the fastest/smallest vector dataset that will do the job. It
may not be the prettiest when rendered, but I'm more interested in
useful data and ultimate speed than "pretty". For me that currently
means OSM vector data in ESRI Shapefile format, with the appropriate
dbfawk's to render it the way I want in Xastir. I don't use, and don't
desire, tiles. I would like to have contour lines as well someday, so
may investigate adding support for USGS DEM's at some point, or
perhaps I can find ESRI Shapefile maps with the countour lines already
drawn for me, which is perfectly adequate (and faster).
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Skyler F <electricity...@gmail.com> 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
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