Hi. Of course tile providers do not want you to bulk download tiles. Tiles are not static images, but generated on every request, which places a load on CPU and disk drives. Simply displaying a map in web browsers is bearable, because number of tiles requested is low. What you want is around 7-10 million of tiles. It is a lot. Too much for any server. You want to overload some server for days just for providing free tiles. Please do not do this. It's sometimes acceptable to download ~1-3 thousand tiles at maximum, but no more. For your case there are two options:
* you build tile server yourself and generate tiles needed (be warned, it's tens of gigabytes); * you pay some company (e.g. MapBox or Geofabrik) to do that for you. I did not hear of anyone providing tiles in archives for bulk downloading, if that's what you had in mind. IZ > Thank you for the response. I do have a offline tiles server on > windows, I was just wondering if there was an easier way to download > all the tiles of a big area for someone who does not want to install a tiles > server. > I didn't find any tiles provider in the list that allow you to > download all the tiles from a large area. Everything seems to be online. >> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:58:01 +0400 >> From: zve...@textual.ru >> To: dev@openstreetmap.org >> CC: scream...@hotmail.com >> Subject: Re: Tiles provider >> >> Vince Berubey: >> > Hi,To download the tiles from level 0 to 17 from a US state, is the >> > only option to have an offline tiles server? Is there a company >> > allowing you to do bulk downloading of tiles? >> >> The best option in my opinion is installing postgresql and mapnik on a >> local machine, and then generating tiles locally. That's what I have >> done last weekend instead of downloading tiles for zooms 14-15, and it >> turned out to be much easier that it looks. I've documented steps IZ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
