2009/5/28 Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com>: > 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.
not necessarily a significant extra load on opkg. you could create an opkg package with no map data in it, only control data for opkg to know what version is installed, and a postinst script (or whatever the equivalent is in opkg), which downloads the data from cloudmade, direct from the osm api, or wherever. i think this is similar to how linux distros package flash, etc. although for different reasons _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community