[Om2008.9] GPS && pre-fetching maps from openstreetmap.org

[Neil Jerram]

2008/10/29 Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>:
>
> Is there somehow I structured way to pre-fetch maps without using
> tangoGPS and go virtually to the area and walking around there on the
> touch pad? I mean, can I say "I wanna have the area with the coordinates
> X1-X2-X3-X4 and store them with zoom level NN" into /media/card/osm"?

+1

What would be _really_ good would be something like

- use Google Maps to get directions from A to B

- somehow feed the result into tangoGPS, to tell it to pre-fetch maps
for all the way along the path.

       Neil