Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

[Joseph Reeves]

> links at osm where others have put together more or less regularyl updated
> binary map files of several regions of the world.

That's made me think - we (as in the community) could provide packages
via opkg.org that provided regular updates for various countries /
regions / zoom levels. Would be very easy to do, just make sure that
someone has up to date tiles (OSMupdater, for example) and package
them up to be extracted to /media/card/maps

It's extra work for one person, and extra load on opkg.org, but for us
lazy people out there, it'd be great. I might even try it out with a
South England example myself.

Cheers, Joseph



2009/5/28 arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de>:
> don't know about any images. but with a map for all of europe 2gb is
> pretty little.
> it certainly won't work with tangogps -- once i tried to get all of
> germany in a usable resolution for tangogps and it exceed by far 2gb.
> so, your best bet would be navit with its binary maps which are much
> smaller for the same are covered.
>
> ho to fetch a map for a selected area is described in the navit wiki (in
> short: wget an url with the coordinates), and there are even a lot of
> links at osm where others have put together more or less regularyl updated
> binary map files of several regions of the world.
>
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