The old Tiger and Cloudmade maps were pretty usable. No matter what solution
is tendered,can't please everyone. Nonetheless, a "base" offline map solution
would add great utility toXastir and those that want to pursue other solutions
can use this forum for tips.I found the geopdf to geotif conversion quite
interesting.When I started out in 2007, being able to drop those map files in
for offline usemade it very easy to get going with Xastir for off grid use.
Kurt KC9LDH
From: David Ranch <[email protected]>
To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Maps?
Hey Jason,
There was some great threads on the offline tile server topic earlier
this year and while I can do the work, the storage requirements seemed
pretty high. My biggest issue is that I'm just not very happy with OSM
in terms of having pretty maps. Google Maps say on aprs.fi are far
easier to read, etc. but Google's terms don't allow tile caching for
offline use, etc.
--David
KI6ZHD
On 07/15/2016 09:42 AM, Jason Godfrey wrote:
> On the topic of pretty offline maps, I have followed online directions to
> setup my own local OSM tile server and then created an xastir mapfile to
> point to localhost. It's not trivial, but if you are comfortable with basic
> system administration and building codes it is doable.
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