On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Sebastian Spaeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frustrated by the lack of a nice map viewing tool for my eee pc, I have > written my own hack. It's a local OpenLayers installation that is served > by a python script (stock python, no additional libs). If the tile does > not exist yet, it will be downloaded from the OSM tile server and be > stored locally, so those tiles will be available for offline viewing. > Tiles will be downloaded and stored in a directory called 'tiles' in the > pyweb directory. If anybody finds it useful that is cool, otherwise I > have just scratched my itch.
I'll need to check this out - I've found it frustrating trying to demo the map even if I'm carrying my laptop around. On the vague chance that there's wireless available, all I get is "ooh, that's really slow" when it's the crappy wireless that's the problem :-) Simple local caching sounds good. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk