I was just going to suggest Natural Earth. Their smallest scale (1:110m) weighs in at about 200 KB for country boundaries only, as a zipped shapefile.. As a bonus, a DBFAWK that works with the smallest scale stuff should also work fine for someone who wants to download the large scale version (1:10m).
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/ <https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/> describes the small scale version. The data is published as public domain: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/ <https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/> Hal > On Jul 29, 2019, at 11:00 AM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:51:56PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> flavor, > containing: >> Tiles require either Imagemagick or GraphicsMagick, and as Tom already >> stated that's not desirable for a minimum install of Xastir. > > Yeah, but his follow-up appears to be volunteering to try to find a shapefile > representation of the OSM data from which the Stamen tiles are generated. > So long as the license is consistent (it may not be) that is helpful. > > We're also looking at naturalearth's shapefiles, which include a relatively > small (750k or so), fairly rough map that could be suitable. > > We're not looking to have a default map that's high quality and beautiful, > just one that isn't 30 years out of date. We already have a low quality > and ugly map, it's just also wrong. It's about 250k. > > If a user wants a GOOD map, they're still going to have to do some work, > either by building Xastir with support for on-line maps, or by finding > more detailed local maps that suit their specific needs. The naturalearth > maps include much more detailed shapefiles that could be such a choice, but > they're way too large to be part of the Xastir distribution. > >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 3:05 AM Hal Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Roughly what file size are we targeting? The Stamen stuff is based on Open >>> Street Map. I think the country level data will be fairly easy to extract >>> from OSM, or (more likely) already exists. If I see a way through I???ll hop >>> over to github and self assign. >>> >>> Hal >>> N3YX >>> >>>> On Jul 28, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Only vector maps need apply, specifically shapefile. Anything else >>> requires >>>> too many TPLs, and that would be too big a "minimum" install. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:25:59PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron >>> collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing: >>>>> Perhaps a joined together version of tiles at >>> http://maps.stamen.com/toner/#5/38.221/17.402? What pixel size is >>> preferred? How much space can it consume? >>>>> >>>>> Hal >>>>> N3YX >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY > Tijeras, NM > > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m] > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > <http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
