Yea. Here are several, but it looks like I don't have OSM data on the work machine. I do however have Tiger 2004 ESRI Shapefile format maps, so I enabled those and did several snapshots. Looks like I might need to do some local tweaks to get better looking fonts, but these render fast! Of course this is a quad-Xeon machine which makes a little bit of a difference...
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David Ranch <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 -- Curt, WE7U
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