maps for others country?

[Paul Wouters]

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Tick Chen wrote:

>  Yes, Locations will automatically download maps from Open Street Maps.
> IF the backend found that it can access to the network.
>
> Therefore, you can create your own personal map, (even package for
> sharing).
>
> How?
> 1. Let Neo connect to the Internet.
> 2. Turn on Locations,
> 3. Zoom in to the location you are interested and drag around.
> 4. login to Neo
> 5. follows the instruction of
> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2008.8_Locations#Create_Offline_Maps
>
> Last time I and some colleagues went to KenTin http://www.ktnp.gov.tw/
> for holidays, we just create a map before departure, it's very
> interesting.

Is there a way to preload map packages from openstreemaps based on coordinates?
So that we can create city or country maps, without actually being there ? :)

Paul